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Lab number
S-3637
Field number
95-DCA-Sav2
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus mandible (id. by J.M. Savelle)
Locality
53-54 m asl, about 7 km inland on the north coast of Stefansson Island, off Victoria Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
78 D/10
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8820 ± 100
Normalized Age
8930 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-18.1
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a terrace overlooking Viscount Melville Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PkNe-VP: One mandible and parts of a second are exposed on a sand terrace mapped as glaciomarine sands by Hodgson (1993; map unit 4). The complete mandible was in three pieces, with total length of 3.3 m. The second mandible consisted of three scattered large pieces and >10 smaller pieces. A large piece of the second mandible was sampled for dating.

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