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Canada / QC / EbDo-? (Sept-îles) / GSC-1911
- Lab number
- GSC-1911
- Field number
- E.S.-1
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Cetacea cranial fragment (630 g)
- Locality
- on Frontenac Street, Sept-îles, St. Lawrence valley, Québec
- Map sheet
- 22 J/01
- Submitter
- C.R. Harington
- Date submitted
- July 24, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1520 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- horizontally bedded coarse sand associated with a recurved spit that formed when sea level was 17-20 m above the present level
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cetacea
- Comments
- EbDo-VP, Sept-îles: A whale skeleton was found during an excavation for housing. L.A. Dredge comments that the date is much younger than expected if the whale was beached and buried during a stand of the sea at the 17-20 m terrace level; therefore, the whole skeleton must have been hauled up to that level from a much lower beach. Given its size (>6 m long and 2.5-3 m wide) it probably was transported by man rather than by wild animals.