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Lab number
S-3545
Field number
93-DCA-050
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
22 km north-northwest of Owen Point, 0.2 km east-southeast of Point Hogarth, 19 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
3975 ± 260
Normalized Age
4120 ± 260
δ13C (per mil)
-15.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RaJo-VP: A periotic bone was collected from the left side of a bowhead skull 50% buried upright in very coarse shingle beach gravel capped by peat. The slightly weathered skull is 170 cm wide. Ribs, vertebrae, and maxillary bones occur nearby. The age compares well with the age of driftwood (GSC-5771; 3780 +/- 80 BP) collected from a nearby raised beach at 16 m altitude.

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