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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.

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