Where: Labrador, Canada (51.7° N, 56.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 56.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• remains of the most important Basque whaling station along the Strait of Belle Isle were discovered at Red Bay along with a Basque galleon identified as the San Juan, which sank in the autumn of 1565

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: T. Rastogi, M. W. Brown, B. A. McLeod, T. R. Frasier, R. Grenier, S. L. Cumbaa, J. Nadarajah and B. N. White. 2004. Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82:1647-1654 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 224252: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.02.2022

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