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Lab number
S-3178
Field number
89-DCA-444
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2 km west of Bell Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4930 ± 80
Normalized Age
5090 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 31 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHp-VP: A fractured periotic bone was collected from organic soil beneath a bowhead cranium 90% buried in peat resting on beach gravel. The cranium is estimated to be 170 to 180 centimetres wide.

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