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Canada / ON / BiGd-? (White Lake) / GSC-2269
- Lab number
- GSC-2269
- Field number
- CR75-55
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus humerus (id. by C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- south side of Hanson's gravel pit, 170 m asl, 2.1 km west of the town of White Lake, Ottawa drainage, Renfrew County, Ontario
- Map sheet
- 31 F/07
- Submitter
- C.R. Harington
- Date submitted
- April 9, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 11500 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -13.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology, Champlain Sea; paléobiologie, Mer Champlain
- Context
- a fresh exposure of dry oxidized sand, overlain by about 3 m of sand and 2.5 m of gravel, the sample cored from the centre of the bone
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- BiGd-VP, White Lake: Harington finds that GSC-2269 is a reasonable date for the position of the fossil on a high shoreline of the Champlain Sea. The age marks the early, deep cold water phase of the sea. Several other bones, probably from the same whale, have been recovered from Hanson's gravel pit.