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- Lab number
- S-3429
- Field number
- 91-DCA-198
- 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, 6 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4030 ± 110
- Normalized Age
- 4130 ± 110
- δ13C (per mil)
- -18.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel 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 fragmented bowhead skull 99% buried in beach gravel capped by thin peat. The skull is too broken to measure, but the size of the periotics suggests a 150 to 180 cm skull width.