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Lab number
S-2923
Field number
86-DCA-490
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
10.8 km east of the head of Smith Bay, 61.5 m asl, M'Clintock Channel, northwestern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 D/04
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8990 ± 130
Normalized Age
9150 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
soliflucted till overlooking M'Clintock Channel, 61.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PhLk-VP: A massive bowhead skull base, 80% buried in soliflucted till, was anchored in permafrost, below the marine limit.

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