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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.