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Lab number
S-3100
Field number
88-DCA-541
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke and J. Hooper)
Locality
5.8 km northeast of Morin Point, mouth of Bernier Bay, 30 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
57 H/07
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5220 ± 80
Normalized Age
5380 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay and Prince Regent Inlet, 30 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OiJf-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a large bowhead skull mostly buried in raised beach gravel. The sample site is about 300 m northwest of 88-DCA-540.

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