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- Lab number
- S-3143
- Field number
- 89-DCA-066
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 7.1 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 53.5 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6920 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 7080 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- peat on till overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHs-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from a bowhead whale cranium 90% covered in peat and resting on till. The cranium is 180 cm wide. Many other bones of this animal are present at this site. This is the highest sample of bowhead recovered from the Tikiraq River camp area.