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- Lab number
- S-3063
- Field number
- 88-DCA-049
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- south side of Fitzgerald Bay, 2.5 km inland, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 64.6 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 A/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 7790 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 7950 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PaJf-VP: Periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead cranium 99% buried in beach gravel, and earbone fragments were taken from the surface of the gravel. A 420 cm long mandible fragment also collected. Other bones at this site include ribs and vertebrae scattered over 100 metres or so.