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Lab number
S-3345
Field number
90-DCA-405
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7 km southwest of south end of Navarana, LakeFoss Fiord, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/05
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5110 ± 90
Normalized Age
5260 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.7
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking the southern Gulf of Boothia, 37.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OcHv-VP: A single periotic bone was collected from a bowhead skull embedded in beach gravel. The skull is 210 cm wide and buried >30 cm.

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