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Lab number
S-3232
Field number
89-DCA-051
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
1.9 km west of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 28 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/14
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5870 ± 80
Normalized Age
6030 ± 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 both sides of a bowhead whale cranium enclosed in peat resting on beach gravel. The cranium is 200 cm wide. Jim Savelle measured this(?) skull at 172.2 cm wide; he noted that it was embedded, ventral side up.

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