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Lab number
S-3176
Field number
89-DCA-432
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3 km southwest of the head of Bell Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4500 ± 100
Normalized Age
4660 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 28 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHp-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead cranium 90% buried in peat resting on bouldery beach gravel. The sample was excavated from frozen ground at a depth of 40 centimetres.

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