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Lab number
S-3229
Field number
89-DCA-046
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3.8 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 20 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/14
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4440 ± 80
Normalized Age
4600 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHs-VP: A periotic bone was collected in situ from one side of a bowhead whale cranium 60% buried in beach gravel. Cranium is 250 cm wide. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was ventral side up.

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