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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.