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- Lab number
- S-3424
- Field number
- 91-DCA-189
- 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, 1.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1410 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 1565 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PfHb-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried in beach sand in a swale behind the second lowest inactive beach. The skull is 228 cm wide.