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- Lab number
- S-3262
- Field number
- 89-DCA-514
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 6 km east-southeast of the head of Berlinguet Inlet, 1 km south of the south coast, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 F/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2700 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 2860 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy peat on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 15 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OfHt-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead cranium mostly enclosed in sandy beach gravel, capped by 30 to 40 cm of peat. The cranium is 154 cm wide with parts of the temporal processes missing.