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Lab number
S-2593
Field number
84-DCA-814
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus skull (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3 km southwest of the west end of Allen Lake, 71 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 D/11
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
9285 ± 135
Normalized Age
9445 ± 135
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
soliflucted till, partly buried, anchored in permafrost, the bone extending 150 cm above the surface, overlooking Barrow Strait, 71 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PjLh-VP: The sample consists of the most solid and cleanest bone around the spinal opening of a large bowhead skull; dense, conchoidally fracturing periotic bone was removed with rock hammers.

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