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Lab number
S-3407
Field number
91-DCA-107
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
2890 ± 110
Normalized Age
3050 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: Periotic bones and otic capsule fragments were collected in situ from both sides of a very fragmented bowhead skull 80% buried in beach gravel capped by thin peat. It is located 10 metres west of sample 91-DCA-106.

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