CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Lab number
S-3263
Field number
89-DCA-515
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
3250 ± 80
Normalized Age
3410 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 19.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHt-VP: A fractured periotic bone was collected in situ from a 136 cm wide bowhead skull (ends of temporal processes missing) mostly buried in coarse beach gravel and capped with peat.

References