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Lab number
S-3294
Field number
90-DCA-040
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, 11.5-13 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/08
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3220 ± 80
Normalized Age
3380 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
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 fragmented bowhead skull resting on beach gravel and encased in peat. The skull is too broken to measure width.

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