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Lab number
S-3416
Field number
91-DCA-160
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 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2890 ± 130
Normalized Age
3045 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-15.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravelly sand and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: A fractured otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 100% buried upside down in beach gravelly sand capped by thin peat. The skull is 120 cm wide.

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