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Lab number
S-3413
Field number
91-DCA-155
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, 17 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5770 ± 140
Normalized Age
5915 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-15.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel 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 30% buried in gravel in a small stream bed incised in a raised beach. The weathered skull is 174 cm wide.

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