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Lab number
S-3179
Field number
89-DCA-445
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2 km west of the head of Bell Bay, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 F/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3790 ± 80
Normalized Age
3950 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand on a raised beach overlooking Bell Bay, 21 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHp-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium partly buried in a sandy raised beach. Otic capsule fragments were collected from organic soil beside the skull. Several vertebrae also occur at the site.

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