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Lab number
S-3239
Field number
89-DCA-095
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.6 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 16.5-17 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/14
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3660 ± 80
Normalized Age
3820 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat in a stream bed eroded through raised beaches overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHs-VP: The ball-shaped part of a periotic bone collected in situ from one side of a bowhead whale cranium enclosed in peat on the gravel of a stream bed eroded through raised beaches. Other bones are on the beach at same level. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was ventral side up.

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