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Lab number
S-2707
Field number
85-DCA-352
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus mandible (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
11 km southeast of Cape Hardy, 51.5 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 D/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8645 ± 135
Normalized Age
8805 ± 135
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
cryoturbated till, half enclosed, standing vertically, overlooking Barrow Strait and Peel Sound, 51.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PlLd-VP: The sample was a solid bone, triangular cross-section with one concave facet, 60 cm long, 13 cm at the widest facet, tapering to a point at other end, likely a nostril bone from bowhead skull.

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