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- Lab number
- S-2711
- Field number
- 85-DCA-377
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus vertebra (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 5 km southeast of stream entering Birthday Bay, near Lyons Point, 11.5 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 A/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3500 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 3660 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Barrow Strait and Peel Sound, 11.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PeLd-VP: A large number of bones, including a skull base, most nearly completely buried in beach gravel, were scattered along a single raised beach ridge over a 75 metre distance. Possibly an entire skeleton was present. Two vertebrae were collected, one from the surface, one buried.