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Lab number
S-3261
Field number
89-DCA-507
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
14 km east of the head of Berlinguet Inlet, 0.7 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
2650 ± 80
Normalized Age
2810 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 16 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHt-VP: Periotic bones were collected from a bowhead cranium mostly enclosed in bouldery beach gravel, capped by peat. The cranium was estimated to be 100 cm wide.

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