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- Lab number
- S-2706
- Field number
- 85-DCA-390
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 18 km south-southwest of Cape Hardy, 69-71 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 9375 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 9535 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach, 90% buried, anchored in permafrost, capped with peat, overlooking Barrow Strait and Peel Sound, 69-71 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
- PkLf-VP: Dense bone near the spinal opening of a bowhead skull base was removed with hacksaw, and two periotic bones were collected from frozen gravel beside skull. The skull measured 200 cm wide.