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Lab number
S-3304
Field number
90-DCA-078
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, 10 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/08
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2180 ± 70
Normalized Age
2330 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat 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 peat and beach gravel. The skull is >184 cm wide.

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