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Lab number
S-3257
Field number
89-DCA-449
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km south of the head of Bell Bay, 1 km west of Saputing River, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3190 ± 90
Normalized Age
3350 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 22.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHo-VP: Fragmented periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium partly encased in peat resting on sandy beach gravel. The skull is 160 cm wide.

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