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- Lab number
- S-2922
- Field number
- 86-DCA-427
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 20.5 km north-northeast of Cape Richard Collinson, 66.5 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 B/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 10000 ± 145
- Normalized Age
- 10160 ± 145
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- till and peat overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 66.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PfLt-VP: A massive bowhead skull base >150 cm wide (not all exposed) was 90% embedded in soliflucted till and solidly anchored in permafrost. The sample consists of a dozen irregularly shaped pieces up to 20 cm long broken from the exposed part of the skull with hammers. The bones were on the surface of till well below the marine limit (about 134 metres), located on the proximal slope of one of the oldest ridges of the Rawlinson Hills End Moraine System.