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Lab number
S-3096
Field number
88-DCA-454
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke and J. Hooper)
Locality
14 km east of Easter Cape, mouth of Bernier Bay, Gulf of Boothia coast, 23 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
57 E/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4250 ± 70
Normalized Age
4410 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking the southern Gulf of Boothia
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfJd-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull partly buried in raised beach gravel. An entire skeleton appears to be scattered along about 35 m of this raised beach.

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