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- Lab number
- S-2912
- Field number
- 86-DCA-524
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 11.5 km east of the head of Smith Bay, 70 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/04
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 9440 ± 135
- Normalized Age
- 9600 ± 135
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 70 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- Moved to the 9 ka sheet in MAH, as the 2-sigma limit extends to <9500 BP. It appears under ice on the 10 ka sheet.
- Comments
- PhLk-VP: A massive bowhead skull base (200 cm wide), maxillary bones, and a single vertebra were embedded in beach gravel and peat, anchored in permafrost. The vertebra and periotic bone collected.