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- Lab number
- S-3145
- Field number
- 89-DCA-068
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 9 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 40.5 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6420 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 6580 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- peat on gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHs-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead whale cranium 80% covered in peat resting on beach gravel. The cranium is at least 160 cm wide. This is the second highest sample of bowhead recovered from Tikiraq River camp area.