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Lab number
S-3040
Field number
88-DCA-503
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke and J. Hooper)
Locality
36 km west-southwest of the head of Bernier Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5050 ± 165
Normalized Age
5190 ± 165
δ13C (per mil)
-16.13
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay, 28 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHx-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull mostly buried in raised beach gravel.

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