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- Lab number
- S-2964
- Field number
- 86-DCA-423
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 11.8 km northeast of Cape Richard Collinson, 57 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 B/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8555 ± 165
- Normalized Age
- 8715 ± 165
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- colluviated till overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 57 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PfLt-VP: A bowhead cranial base was 90% embedded in soliflucted till and anchored in permafrost with an accumulation of peat around the bone. A periotic bone was recovered by excavating around the skull base. No other bones were exposed at the site.