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Lab number
S-3170
Field number
89-DCA-186
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3.8 km south of the mouth of Kuuruluk River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 23.5 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 B/06
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
6610 ± 110
Normalized Age
6770 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PcHs-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium 95% buried in gravelly beach sand. This sample, along with 89-DCA-192 from 24 metres and 89-DCA-218 from 23 metres, are the highest bowhead samples recovered from The Gallery camp area.

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