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- Lab number
- S-3355
- Field number
- 90-DCA-473
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 32 km northwest of the head of Bernier Bay, 20.5 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/04
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4530 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4675 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHx-VP: Both periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull partly embedded in poorly drained beach gravel in a shallow swale. The skull is 140 cm wide.