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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.