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Lab number
S-3521
Field number
93-DCA-038
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
4.6 km northeast of Owen Point, 26 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
4760 ± 260
Normalized Age
4900 ± 260
δ13C (per mil)
-16.1
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RaJn-VP: The ball-shaped part of a periotic bone was collected from the right side of a bowhead skull previously excavated (likely by Inuit searching for carving bone) from thin shingle beach gravel overlying till. The skull was resting right (dorsal) side up and appears to have been 30% buried originally. The skull is too weathered to measure width.

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