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- Lab number
- S-3181
- Field number
- 89-DCA-497
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 33 km southwest of Imek Point, 0.2 km inland, south side of Berlinguet Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4220 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4380 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 19 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHr-VP: Wedge-shaped parts of both periotic bones and a fragmented otic capsule were collected from and near a bowhead cranium partly enclosed in peat and partly buried in beach gravel. The cranium is 122 centimetres wide. The capsule was recovered from peat beside the skull.