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Lab number
S-3310
Field number
90-DCA-002
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
98.5 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
9110 ± 110
Normalized Age
9245 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-16.7
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat 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 coarse beach gravel and capped with thin peat. The skull is 160 cm wide.

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