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Canada / NU / PkHv-? (Cape York) / S-3138
- Lab number
- S-3138
- Field number
- 89-DCA-028
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4.2 km southwest of Cape York, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 54 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 C/13
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8820 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 8980 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound, 54 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PkHv-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead cranium 99% buried in beach gravel. This is the highest sample of bowhead bone recovered from the Cape York camp area.