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Lab number
S-3180
Field number
89-DCA-460
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
9 km northwest of the mouth of Saputing River, Bell Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
6070 ± 90
Normalized Age
6230 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 44 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHp-VP: A periotic bone fragment was collected from a bowhead cranium partly buried in beach gravel. The cranium is about 160 centimetres wide.

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