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- Lab number
- S-3396
- Field number
- 91-DCA-008
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- east of the mouth of Phillips Creek, head of Milne Inlet, 6.5 m asl, Eclipse Sound region, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 H/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 780 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 935 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach in the Eclipse Sound region, the same whale dated by S-3517
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OlHc-VP: Periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a juvenile bowhead skull, 92 cm wide, 100% buried upside down in beach gravel below a large skull, 196 cm wide, that rested upright upon it. Earbones were missing from the large skull.