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Date: S-2916

Age BP
 
S-2916 (10165 ±120)
Site
 
PeLt-? ( / 16.7 km east-southeast of Cape Richard Collinson, 62 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince / NU / Canada )
Stored in
 
Latitude
 
73.0000
Longitude
 
-102.0000
Contact
 
Not available
     
Material
 
whale bone collagen; collagene osseux de baleine
Taxonomy
 
b'Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)'
     
Context
 
gullied and wind-eroded glaciomarine silt overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 62 m asl
     
     
References
 
Dyke and Morris, 1990 Harington, 2003: 355
     
Comments
 
Field number : 86-DCA-422 68 B/11 A.S. Dyke August 21, 0098 10005 120 Significance : palaeobiology; paleobiologie Associated taxa : Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus PeLt-VP: Many bones are present at this locality, including a massive skull bone, and 3 metre long maxillary bones. The bones are partly embedded in glaciomarine sediment but burial could have been caused by slopewash.
     





























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