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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.