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Lab number
S-3434
Field number
91-DCA-422
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper)
Locality
8 km west-southwest of Point Kendall, Crown Prince Frederick Island, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/03
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5120 ± 120
Normalized Age
5265 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-15.8
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking the Gulf of Boothia, 47 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OaHu-VP: Fragmented periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull partly buried in beach gravel capped by peat. The skull is of medium size.

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