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Lab number
S-3177
Field number
89-DCA-443
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
0.5 km west of the head of Bell Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2060 ± 100
Normalized Age
2220 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 9 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHo-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead cranium 99% buried in sandy beach gravel. The sample was excavated from a depth of 30 centimetres.

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