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Lab number
S-3340
Field number
90-DCA-160
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
0.5 km north of Eqalulik River, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 27 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 B/10
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
6850 ± 80
Normalized Age
6995 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PdHr-VP: Periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 90% buried in very coarse beach gravel. The skull is upside down and too weathered to measure.

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