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Lab number
S-3414
Field number
91-DCA-157
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
bay northwest of Lavoie Point, Navy Board Inlet coast of Borden Peninsula, 9-9,5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3930 ± 130
Normalized Age
4065 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-16.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly sand and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a very fragmented bowhead skull 99% buried in gravelly beach sand capped by thin peat.

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