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Lab number
S-3295
Field number
90-DCA-043
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Jungersen Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 19-20 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/08
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3640 ± 60
Normalized Age
3795 ± 60
δ13C (per mil)
-15.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sand and peat on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OiHn-VP: One fragmented otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 99 % buried in beach sand and capped with peat. The skull is >138 cm wide. This is the same beach as sample 90-DCA-41, 20 m to the south. There are many other bones at this site.

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