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Lab number
S-3328
Field number
90-DCA-130
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 17 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3860 ± 80
Normalized Age
4020 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
peat on till on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHq-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a broken up juvenile bowhead skull 99% buried in peat resting on till. The skull is too broken to measure. It is 100 metres upslope from sample 90-DCA-128.

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