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Lab number
S-2590
Field number
84-DCA-736
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus rib (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
20 km southwest of Hollist Point, 66 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 C/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
9605 ± 140
Normalized Age
9765 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
peat resembling a palsa, resting on glaciomarine silt behind the Rawlinson Hills end moraine system, overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 66 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PkLr-VP: A large pile of bones at this site likely represents an entire bowhead whale skeleton.

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