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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).