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Lab number
S-3331
Field number
90-DCA-138
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 11 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2410 ± 70
Normalized Age
2570 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-14.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
peat on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHq-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from fractured bowhead skull 90% buried in peat on a raised beach. The skull is too broken to measure but a juvenile judging by the size of the periotic. It is located 100 metres south of sample 90-DCA-137.

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