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Lab number
S-3128
Field number
89-DCA-530
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8 km southeast of the head of Berlinguet Inlet, 4 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
5080 ± 80
Normalized Age
5240 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 29.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHt-VP: Several fragments of periotic bone and an otic capsule were collected from beach gravel near a bowhead cranium mostly enclosed in beach gravel capped by 20 to 30 centimetres of peat. The cranium is 160 centimetres wide.

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