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- Lab number
- GSC-2229-3
- Field number
- BS-75-174
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus rib (1862 g)
- Locality
- 6.5 km north of Cape Storm, where the river has cut through the raised marine deposits of Andersrag Beach, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 16000 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of raised beach gravel, 55 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- RcHw-VP-2, Cape Storm: A whale rib yielded four discordant dates, and its actual age is not clear except to say that it is pre-Holocene. Blake (1988: 64) provides detailed descriptions of pre-treatment methods for these samples.