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- Lab number
- S-3122
- Field number
- 89-DCA-189
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4.2 km south of the mouth of Kuuruluk River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 15 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 B/06
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4040 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 4200 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravelly sand on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PcHs-VP: Otic capsules were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium (along with a periotic bone from one side), 99% buried in gravelly beach sand. The cranium is 160 centimetres wide.