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Author : Harington, C.R.; Lebel, S.; Paiement, M.; and de Vernal, A.
Date : 2006.
Title : Felix. A Late Pleistocene white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) skeleton from Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Felix-De-Valois, Quebec.
Publication : Géographie physique et Quaternaire
Issue : 60(2):
Page(s) : 183-198.



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Abstract

A nearly complete, articulated skeleton of an old white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) from Champlain Sea deposits at SaintF61ix-de-Valois is the best preserved specimen of its kind recorded from North America. It is one of 21 white whale specimens known from Champlain Sea deposits. Collagen from a vertebra yielded an accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon date of 10 700 t 90 BP, which, with stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental data, is in accord with our knowledge of the past distribution of this species, its known habitat and habits. This study quantitatively traces regional sea-surface temperature, salinity and ice-cover. Dinocysts indicate a change from cold to cool conditions in surface water during that period corresponding to the withdrawl of ice and the beginning of the Holocene.

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