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Lab number
S-2916
Field number
86-DCA-422
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
16.7 km east-southeast of Cape Richard Collinson, 62 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 B/11
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
10005 ± 120
Normalized Age
10165 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gullied and wind-eroded glaciomarine silt overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 62 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeLt-VP: Many bones are present at this locality, including a massive skull bone, and 3 metre long maxillary bones. The bones are partly embedded in glaciomarine sediment but burial could have been caused by slopewash.

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