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Lab number
S-3306
Field number
90-DCA-102
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, 14 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/09
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3250 ± 80
Normalized Age
3395 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-16.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
peat and gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OjHn-VP: An otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 95% buried in peat and beach gravel. The skull not measured but is that of a juvenile.

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