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Lab number
S-2594
Field number
84-DCA-050B
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus
Locality
head of Guillemard Bay, 3 km southeast from the mouth of the Fisher River, 81 m asl, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
67 H/14
Submitter
T.F. Morris
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
6660 ± 160
Normalized Age
6820 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OlLg-VP: S-2594 is anomalously young for this elevation. A minimum age is 8700 BP.

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