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- Lab number
- S-3537
- Field number
- 93-DCA-200
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 9 km northwest of Bere Bay, 10.5 m asl, Belcher Channel coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 59 B/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2580 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 2725 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravelly beach sand on a raised beach overlooking Belcher Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- RfJt-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 50% buried upright in gravelly beach sand. The age compares well with that of driftwood (GSC-5805; 2090 +/- 60 BP) collected from a nearby raised beach at 8 m altitude.