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- Lab number
- S-3421
- Field number
- 91-DCA-184
- 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, 31 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 7890 ± 170
- Normalized Age
- 8025 ± 170
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.7
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PfHb-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a degraded bowhead skull 50% buried upside down in beach gravel capped by thin peat. The skull is too weathered to measure width.