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Lab number
S-3529
Field number
93-DCA-066
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8.2 km southeast of Owen Point, 9.5 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 G/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2020 ± 140
Normalized Age
2175 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-15.3
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QlJn-VP: One periotic bone collected from a small bowhead skull 50% buried in shingle beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull is 122 cm wide and rests 0.5 m lower than the crest of the raised beach to seaward.

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