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Lab number
S-3567
Field number
94-DCA-076
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
9.7 km northwest of mouth of Lyall River, 3.5 m asl, Belcher Channel coast of Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 C/04
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
1240 ± 170
Normalized Age
1390 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
stream gravel surface incised in a raised beach overlooking Belcher Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RgJw-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull resting on the surface of coarse stream gravel where incised through coarse raised beach gravel; several other bones are on the nearby beach surface. The skull is 160 cm wide. Sample 94-DCA-075 was nearby at the same level.

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