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Lab number
S-3563
Field number
92-DCA-B09
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
34.5 km north-northeast of Fort Ross, 23 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, Somerset Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 B/07
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
5050 ± 170
Normalized Age
5195 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-16.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sandy gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PbJr-VP: An isolated periotic bone was collected from the surface of sandy beach gravel, slightly embedded. The bone was on the seaward edge of a raised beach, 15 metres laterally from the beach crest and 3 metres vertically below the beach crest. Other bones (vertebrae, maxilla fragments, etc.) are scattered along a 300 metre stretch of this beach level. The first age determination on the otic capsule was 5560 +/- 680 BP (S-3516), the large standard error resulting from the small amount of benzine left for counting after a problem with the catalyst. A second sample (S-3568) was submitted in an attempt to achieve a smaller error.

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