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- Lab number
- S-3077
- Field number
- 88-DCA-011
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- south side of the mouth of McBean Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 16.5 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 A/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5020 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 5180 ± 75
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PdJe-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 95% buried in beach gravel. The cranium is 200 cm wide and occurs at the end of a line of bones scattered along a single beach ridge over a distance of several hundred metres.