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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.