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- Lab number
- S-3530
- Field number
- 93-DCA-055
- 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, 6-7 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
- 1810 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 1965 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- RaJo-VP: Both otic capsules and one periotic bone were collected from a bowhead skull upside down on very coarse beach gravel. Many bones of this animal are present in a cluster, located about 200 m seaward of narwhal sample 93-DCA-53.