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Lab number
S-3082
Field number
88-DCA-038
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
15 km south of the mouth of McBean Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 52.4 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
8230 ± 100
Normalized Age
8390 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
till surface on a moderate slope overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PdJe-VP: Periotic bone was collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 90% buried in soliflucted till on a moderate slope. The cranium is about 200 cm wide. Several other bones of this animal are at the site, scattered over a distance of 100 m or so.

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