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Lab number
S-3240
Field number
89-DCA-109
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8.1 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 18 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/14
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3920 ± 80
Normalized Age
4080 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHs-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead whale cranium 60% buried in beach gravel. Another skull 1 m higher and 10 m away has highly weathered periotics and was not collected.

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