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Lab number
S-3250
Field number
89-DCA-190
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km south of the mouth of Kuuruluk River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 14 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 B/06
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3540 ± 80
Normalized Age
3700 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PcHs-VP: The ball-shaped part of a periotic bone was collected in situ from a degraded fragment of a bowhead cranium 90% buried in beach sand.

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