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- Lab number
- S-2667
- Field number
- 84-DCA-510
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus vertebra (id. by D.E.C. Green)
- Locality
- 3.6 m asl, Barrow Strait, northeastern Russell Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 E/02
- Submitter
- D.E.C. Green
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 0
- Normalized Age
- 0
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach, covered by moss, overlooking Barrow Strait
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QaLf-VP: According to A.S. Dyke, S-2667 is anomalously young for this elevation; the age should be >0.9 ka BP. Excess sample returned to Dyke by the laboratory consisted of very porous bone with humic material filling the pores.