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- Lab number
- S-2965
- Field number
- 86-DCA-556
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 50.5 m asl, 1 km inland of northwest coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8765 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 8925 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of unvegetated, wind-eroded, weathered sandstone bedrock overlooking Peel Sound, 50.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PgLd-VP: Whale bone occurred on a bedrock surface below the marine limit (about 107 m). All bones here are highly weathered and partly decomposed fragments of a large bowhead skull base. Periotic bone fragments and two fragments around the spinal hole were collected.