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- Lab number
- S-3349
- Field number
- 90-DCA-445
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 19 km west of Berlinguet River, 6 km northeast of head of inlet, Brodeur Peninsula, 20.5 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/03
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4090 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4240 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sandy gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHu-VP: Both periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull embedded in sandy beach gravel. The skull is 220 cm wide. The skull is large and very light, and the periotic bones have atypical protrusions. The skull may belong to another whale species.