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Lab number
S-3358
Field number
90-DCA-476
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
28 km northwest of the head of Bernier Bay, 30 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/04
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4860 ± 80
Normalized Age
5000 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-16.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgHw-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull partly embedded in well drained beach gravel on the flank of a low beach ridge, and capped by peat. The skull is 160 cm wide.

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