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Lab number
S-3555
Field number
93-DCA-048
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
6.3 km east-northeast of Owen Point, 23 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/01
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4460 ± 150
Normalized Age
4640 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-13.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RaJn-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 95% buried upside down in shingle beach gravel. The very weathered skull is 130 cm wide.

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