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- Lab number
- S-3303
- Field number
- 90-DCA-075
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Jungersen Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 3 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/08
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1280 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1430 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology, archaeology?; paléobiologie, archéologie?
- Context
- gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OiHn-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 70% buried in gravelly beach sand. The skull is near ancient tent rings, so likely represents a kill. Other bones of this animal are nearby in a pile. The skull is 136 cm wide.