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Lab number
S-3098
Field number
88-DCA-444
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke and J. Hooper)
Locality
5 km southeast of Van Koening Point, mouth of Bernier Bay, Gulf of Boothia coast, 27 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
57 H/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5520 ± 70
Normalized Age
5680 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and sand on a raised beach overlooking the southern Gulf of Boothia
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgJe-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium mostly buried in a sandy raised beach.

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