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- Lab number
- S-3348
- Field number
- 90-DCA-440
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 6 km west of Berlinguet River, 7 km southwest of river mouth, Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/03
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3280 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 3425 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 18 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHt-VP: Wedge-shaped parts of both periotic bones and several other ear bone fragments were collected from a bowhead skull embedded in moist beach gravel. The skull is 117 cm wide and buried to a depth of 5 cm.