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Lab number
S-3351
Field number
90-DCA-453
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
22 km west of Berlinguet River, 3 km northeast of head of inlet, Brodeur Peninsula, 23 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/03
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4010 ± 80
Normalized Age
4155 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.8
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgHu-VP: A periotic bone bone was collected from a bowhead skull embedded in pebbly beach gravel. The skull is 200 cm wide and 90% buried. It has been partly unearthed and gnawed by animals. There are no other bones in the vicinity.

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