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- Lab number
- S-3318
- Field number
- 90-DCA-106
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 4 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1130 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 1285 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology, archaeology?; paléobiologie, archéologie?
- Context
- peat and gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHq-VP: Periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 80% buried in beach gravel and capped with peat. The skull is upside down and has a width of 166 cm. Ancient tent rings are located nearby.