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- Lab number
- S-3126
- Field number
- 89-DCA-136
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 1 km west of the mouth of Tiriganialaag River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 39 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 B/03
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6200 ± 110
- Normalized Age
- 6360 ± 110
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PbHq-VP: An otic capsule from one side and periotic bones from both sides of a bowhead cranium were collected in situ, 50% buried in beach gravel; the cranium is 210 centimetres wide. This sample and 89-DCA-147 from 40 metres are the highest recovered from the Tiriganialaag River camp area.