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Lab number
S-3076
Field number
88-DCA-002
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km southwest of the mouth of McBean Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 7 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 A/10
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2950 ± 70
Normalized Age
3110 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PdJf-VP: An otic capsule was 80% buried in raised beach gravel with no cranium nearby. Other bowhead bones are scattered about an area 100 m x 100 m, the largest being about 60 cm wide.

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