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Lab number
S-3424
Field number
91-DCA-189
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, 1.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
1410 ± 120
Normalized Age
1565 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-15.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PfHb-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried in beach sand in a swale behind the second lowest inactive beach. The skull is 228 cm wide.

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