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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.

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