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- Lab number
- S-2591
- Field number
- 84-DCA-747
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 2 km south of salt water lake, south side of Reliance Bay, 54 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 C/09
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 10530 ± 145
- Normalized Age
- 10690 ± 145
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- soliflucted till on a steep slope 2 metres below a gravel delta terrace at 56 metres, overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 54 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PkLm-VP: The sample consists of a clean, dense bone removed from the joint surface around the spinal opening of a bowhead skull base. The bone may have moved downslope from the 56 m delta terrace. Two large skull fragments occur here, each about 1 metre wide, each 50% buried.