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- Lab number
- S-3128
- Field number
- 89-DCA-530
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 8 km southeast of the head of Berlinguet Inlet, 4 km south of the south coast, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 F/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5080 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 5240 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 29.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OfHt-VP: Several fragments of periotic bone and an otic capsule were collected from beach gravel near a bowhead cranium mostly enclosed in beach gravel capped by 20 to 30 centimetres of peat. The cranium is 160 centimetres wide.