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Canada / NU / PkHv-? (Cape York) / S-3139
- Lab number
- S-3139
- Field number
- 89-DCA-029
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 1.9 km southwest of Cape York, north coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 12 m asl, Lancaster Sound, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 C/13
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 7070 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 7230 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PkHv-VP: Fractured periotic bones were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 80% buried in beach gravel.