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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.

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