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Lab number
S-3397
Field number
91-DCA-029
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
east of the mouth of Phillips Creek, head of Milne Inlet, 1.5 m asl, Eclipse Sound region, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 H/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
1070 ± 80
Normalized Age
1230 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach in the Eclipse Sound region
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OlHc-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in beach gravel of the youngest raised beach on a steep local slope. The skull has a minimum width of 202 cm.

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