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- Lab number
- S-3288
- Field number
- 90-DCA-001
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 23 m asl, northwest coast of Griffith Island, 22 km south of Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 F/12
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5170 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 5325 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Barrow Strait
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QdJx-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead whale skull 60% buried in medium beach gravel. The skull is >170 cm wide.