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- Lab number
- S-3522
- Field number
- 93-DCA-002
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4.5 km northwest of Providence Mountain, 9 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 G/09
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2580 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 2740 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.1
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QkJm-VP: An otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected from the left side of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in shingle beach gravel capped with humic peat and a mat of vegetation. The skull is too weathered to measure width.