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Lab number
S-3412
Field number
91-DCA-146
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
bay northwest of Lavoie Point, Navy Board Inlet coast of Borden Peninsula, 8 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3840 ± 130
Normalized Age
4000 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 100% buried in beach sand capped by thin peat. It is located 100 metres from 91-DCA-145 and 250 metres directly upslope from 91-DCA-144.

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