CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
- Lab number
- S-3170
- Field number
- 89-DCA-186
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.8 km south of the mouth of Kuuruluk River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 23.5 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 B/06
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 6610 ± 110
- Normalized Age
- 6770 ± 110
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PcHs-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium 95% buried in gravelly beach sand. This sample, along with 89-DCA-192 from 24 metres and 89-DCA-218 from 23 metres, are the highest bowhead samples recovered from The Gallery camp area.