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Lab number
S-3085
Field number
88-DCA-055
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3.3 km east of the mouth of Fitzgerald Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 14 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 A/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4390 ± 90
Normalized Age
4550 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PaJf-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium 99% buried in beach gravel. Many other bones are scattered along this beach.

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