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Lab number
S-3433
Field number
91-DCA-413
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper)
Locality
10 km northwest 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
6350 ± 130
Normalized Age
6490 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-16.3
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking the Gulf of Boothia, 72 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OaHu-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull partly buried in beach gravel capped by peat. The skull is 122 cm wide.

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