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Lab number
S-3357
Field number
90-DCA-475
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
26 km northwest of the head of Bernier Bay, 19 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/04
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3780 ± 80
Normalized Age
3935 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.3
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OgHw-VP: A fragmented otic capsule and periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull partly embedded in moderately drained beach gravel, capped by peat, extending below frost table. The skull is 180 cm wide. A rib and a vertebral disk are located 12 m from the skull.

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