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Lab number
S-3409
Field number
91-DCA-127
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, 22.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
6610 ± 140
Normalized Age
6740 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-17.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 60% buried upside down in beach gravel. The skull is 212 cm wide.

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