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Lab number
S-3405
Field number
91-DCA-060
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
head of Koluktoo Bay, Milne Inlet, 8.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2230 ± 110
Normalized Age
2380 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a raised beach in the Eclipse Sound region
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PaHd-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 60% buried in beach sand and partly exposed by wind erosion.

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