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- Lab number
- S-3020
- Field number
- 88-DCA-027
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 10 km south-southwest of the mouth of McBean Bay, 4-4.6 m asl, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 A/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3255 ± 85
- Normalized Age
- 3400 ± 85
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.93
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet, 4 to 4.6 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PfJf-VP: An excellently preserved juvenile bowhead skull with nose bones still attached to the cranial base was about 90% buried in beach gravel. The cranium is 110 cm wide; from tip of nose bone to base of skull is 190 cm. Both sets of periotic bones were collected in situ from the cranium.