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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.