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Lab number
S-3149
Field number
89-DCA-090
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2.2 km south of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 21.5 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/11
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4370 ± 80
Normalized Age
4530 ± 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
OkHs-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from a degraded (weathered) bowhead cranium 80% buried in beach gravel capped by peat. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was dorsal side up.

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