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- Lab number
- S-2593
- Field number
- 84-DCA-814
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3 km southwest of the west end of Allen Lake, 71 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/11
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 9285 ± 135
- Normalized Age
- 9445 ± 135
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- soliflucted till, partly buried, anchored in permafrost, the bone extending 150 cm above the surface, overlooking Barrow Strait, 71 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PjLh-VP: The sample consists of the most solid and cleanest bone around the spinal opening of a large bowhead skull; dense, conchoidally fracturing periotic bone was removed with rock hammers.