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- Lab number
- S-3291
- Field number
- 90-DCA-015
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Cape Charles York, Borden Peninsula, 9-9.5 m asl, Lancaster Sound, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 D/12
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8230 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 8350 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PjHj-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 90% buried in sandy beach gravel. The skull is >162 cm wide.