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- Lab number
- S-3352
- Field number
- 90-DCA-466
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- northeast Bernier Bay, 12 km west-northwest of head of bay, 9 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/04
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2290 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 2455 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHv-VP: A fragmented otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected from a bowhead skull 90% embedded in beach gravel, capped by peat. The skull is 180 cm wide.