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Lab number
S-3067
Field number
88-DCA-025
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
6 km southwest of the mouth of McBean Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 20.1 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
5890 ± 80
Normalized Age
6050 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PdJf-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium resting on alluvial gravel in a small channel cut through raised beaches. Other bones, likely belonging to the same animal, are scattered along the raised beach.

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