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- Lab number
- S-3024
- Field number
- 88-DCA-041
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 5.5 km south-southwest of the mouth of McBean Bay, 63 m asl, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 A/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8400 ± 135
- Normalized Age
- 8560 ± 135
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet, 63 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PdJf-VP: Periotic bones and otic capsules were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium, the sample broken out of permafrost with hammer. The cranium is 180 cm wide. Other bones of this animal are scattered over tens of metres at this site.