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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.