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Lab number
S-3133
Field number
89-DCA-519
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
Locality
6 km southeast of the head of Berlinguet Inlet, 1.5 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
3940 ± 90
Normalized Age
4100 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 19.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OfHu-VP: Both periotic bones and an otic capsule were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium mostly enclosed in gravelly beach sand capped by peat. The cranium is 198 centimetres wide.

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