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Lab number
S-3136
Field number
89-DCA-026
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3.3 km southwest of Cape York, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 20.5 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 C/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
7880 ± 110
Normalized Age
8040 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PkHv-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead cranium 90% buried in beach gravel resting on stony marine mud.

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