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- Lab number
- S-3431
- Field number
- 91-DCA-409
- 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
- 5310 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 5440 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking the Gulf of Boothia, 50 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OaHu-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried in peat on beach gravel. The skull is 110 cm wide. Several other badly decomposed bones occur at the site.