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- Lab number
- S-2920
- Field number
- 86-DCA-552
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.5 m asl, west coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 D/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1585 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1745 ± 75
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Peel Sound, 3.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PgLd-VP: A well-preserved skull base of a juvenile bowhead whale was partly embedded in raised beach gravel. The sample consists of a frost shattered otic capsule which was scattered in the beach gravel around a few square metres. The skull base is 1 metre wide.