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Lab number
S-3566
Field number
94-DCA-072
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
6.5 km northwest of mouth of Lyall River, 12 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
2820 ± 170
Normalized Age
2965 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-15.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Belcher Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RgJw-VP: A periotic bone (ball-shaped part only) was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 90% buried upright in fine beach gravel. Whale bone is very rare on the raised beaches in this region, and this site is unusual in that vertebrae occur on another beach 2 metres higher and a single rib occurs several hundred metres upslope at 25 m altitude.

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