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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.