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Lab number
S-3528
Field number
93-DCA-054
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
18.3 km north-northwest of Owen Point, 4.4 km southeast of Point Hogarth, 15 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/01
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3360 ± 150
Normalized Age
3510 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
sandy beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RaJn-VP: Both otic capsules and both periotic bones (ball-shaped parts only) were collected from a bowhead skull 100% buried upright in sandy beach gravel capped by peat. The slightly weathered skull is 200 cm wide. Several other bones of this animal occur nearby. This sample is about 50 m inland of narwhal sample 93-DCA-053 and at the same elevation. Another bowhead skull occurs at the same level and 100 m seaward of this sample, it has no ear bones and the skull bone is in bad condition.

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