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Lab number
S-3408
Field number
91-DCA-117
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
bay northwest of Lavoie Point, Navy Board Inlet coast of Borden Peninsula, 4.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2550 ± 120
Normalized Age
2700 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: A fractured otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 95% buried on the side in beach gravel. It is located about 100 metres from 91-DCA-116, but two beaches inland.

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