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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.

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