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Lab number
S-3069
Field number
88-DCA-144
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
10.5 km west of Stanley Point, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 30.5-31.5 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 C/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
9050 ± 100
Normalized Age
9210 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PkHq-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium 50% buried in beach gravel. One set of earbones was exposed to the air and bleached white.

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