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Lab number
S-3089
Field number
88-DCA-077
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
9 km south of the mouth of Fitzgerald Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 10.1 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
57 H/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2940 ± 70
Normalized Age
3100 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OlJf-VP: Two complete sets of earbones, with otic capsules still fused to the periotic bones, were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 90% buried in beach gravel. The cranium is 128 cm across. Excess sample of the dated earbone was transferred to the Canadian Museum of Nature. The complete earbone from the other side was donated to the New Brunswick Museum at request of Randy Miller for their Quaternary sea mammal exhibit.

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