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Lab number
S-3026
Field number
88-DCA-096
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Vista River, 5.4 km northwest of Kakiak Point, 14-14.5 m asl, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 B/11
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5395 ± 95
Normalized Age
5540 ± 95
δ13C (per mil)
-15.98
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet, 14 to 14.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeJc-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull buried in gravelly sand on a raised beach and partly exposed by wind erosion of the sediment. Several other bowheads and narwhal occur close by on the same strandline (samples 88-DCA-92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98). The bones have recently been exploited by Arctic Bay Inuit for carving material.

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