CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
- Lab number
- S-2921
- Field number
- 86-DCA-548
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 9 m asl, west coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3315 ± 75
- Normalized Age
- 3475 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Peel Sound, 9 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PgLd-VP: Several poorly preserved cranial fragments (largest 1 metre wide, including the spinal opening) were present here. The sample consists of periotic bone, the largest piece weighing 708 g in dry but uncleaned condition.