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- Lab number
- S-3343
- Field number
- 90-DCA-168
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Levasseur Inlet, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 1 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 B/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 900 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 1060 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, archaeology?; paléobiologie, archéologie?
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PdHq-VP: A fractured otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 70% buried in sandy beach gravel. It is located in the second raised beach. The skull is upright and 128 cm wide. There are numerous tent rings along this stretch of coast.