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Lab number
S-3403
Field number
91-DCA-048
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, 12-14 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3120 ± 90
Normalized Age
3290 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-14.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach in the Eclipse Sound region
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PaHd-VP: A periotic bone (ball-shaped part only) was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 95% buried on the side in beach gravel capped by thin peat. The skull is 200 metres north of 91-DCA-47.

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