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- Lab number
- S-3324
- Field number
- 90-DCA-117
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 1 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 480 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 640 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.9
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- peat and sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHq-VP: An otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 70% buried in eolian sand, capped by peat, resting on beach gravel. The skull is upright and has a width of 148 cm.