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Lab number
S-3350
Field number
90-DCA-451
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km west of Berlinguet River, 6 km southwest of river mouth, Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/03
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3700 ± 80
Normalized Age
3865 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-14.7
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 20.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgHs-VP: Fragments of periotic bone were collected from a bowhead skull embedded in saturated, organic-rich beach gravel on a level, well vegetated area of raised beaches. The skull is 170 cm wide.

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