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Lab number
S-2922
Field number
86-DCA-427
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
20.5 km north-northeast of Cape Richard Collinson, 66.5 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
10000 ± 145
Normalized Age
10160 ± 145
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
till and peat overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 66.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PfLt-VP: A massive bowhead skull base >150 cm wide (not all exposed) was 90% embedded in soliflucted till and solidly anchored in permafrost. The sample consists of a dozen irregularly shaped pieces up to 20 cm long broken from the exposed part of the skull with hammers. The bones were on the surface of till well below the marine limit (about 134 metres), located on the proximal slope of one of the oldest ridges of the Rawlinson Hills End Moraine System.

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