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- Lab number
- S-2915
- Field number
- 86-DCA-562
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 14 m asl, 1 km inland of northeast coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/01
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4635 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4795 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand (weathered rock) on a raised beach overlooking Peel Sound, 14 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PgLc-VP: The skull base of a juvenile bowhead was 90% embedded in sand. The skull is 100 cm wide. Both complete ear bone assemblages were collected (both otic capsules and both periotics).