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Lab number
S-2589
Field number
84-DCA-721
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus vertebra (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
9 km south of Hollist Point, 12-12.3 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 B/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4155 ± 100
Normalized Age
4315 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel, 50% buried on a raised beach overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 12.0-12.3 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PfLq-VP: The sample consists of a relatively small bowhead vertebra, the disk measuring 14 cm in diameter. A skull base nearby is 150 cm wide. A driftwood log at a nearby site at 12 m asl dated 3660 +/- 60 (GSC-3962).

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