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Lab number
S-3536
Field number
93-DCA-108
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.6 km northwest of Porden Point, Prince Alfred Bay, 2.7-3 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/07
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
930 ± 150
Normalized Age
1080 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-15.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RbJr-VP: Both otic capsules (fractured) and both periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull 99% buried in coarse beach gravel directly downslope from driftwood sample 93-DCS-107. The slightly weathered skull is 120 cm wide. Vertebrae are scattered at the site.

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