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- Lab number
- S-3415
- Field number
- 91-DCA-159
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- bay northwest of Lavoie Point, Navy Board Inlet coast of Borden Peninsula, 15 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5080 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 5220 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PeHb-VP: An otic capsule fragment (half capsule) and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 60% buried upside down in beach gravel capped by thin peat. The weathered skull is 136 cm wide, but an estimated 20 cm is missing from the weathered processes.