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Lab number
S-3423
Field number
91-DCA-188
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, 6.8 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3300 ± 130
Normalized Age
3460 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-14.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PfHb-VP: Both otic capsules (one fragmented) and a periotic bone were collected in situ from one side of a bowhead skull 95% buried on the side in beach gravel (coarse shingle gravel) capped by thin peat. It is located 100 metres south (along shore) of 91-DCA-187 and on a beach that lies between -187 and -183.

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