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Lab number
S-3144
Field number
89-DCA-067
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.4 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 16 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
47 G/14
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3680 ± 90
Normalized Age
3840 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OkHs-VP: One periotic bone and both otic capsules were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 90% buried in beach gravel. The cranium is more than 110 cm wide. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was ventral side up and collected the other periotic (his sample B92-154).

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