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- Lab number
- S-3297
- Field number
- 90-DCA-048
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Jungersen Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 18 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/08
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3870 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4020 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OiHn-VP: Periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a fragmented bowhead skull 80 % buried in beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull is too broken to measure, but this must have been a big animal judging by the size of the periotic.