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Lab number
S-3533
Field number
93-DCA-103
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.5 km northwest of Porden Point, Prince Alfred Bay, 13 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/07
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2660 ± 150
Normalized Age
2820 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-14.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
fine beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RbJr-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in fine beach gravel. The weathered skull is 212 cm wide.

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