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Lab number
S-3534
Field number
93-DCA-104
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.5 km north-northwest of Porden Point, Prince Alfred Bay, 8 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
1930 ± 170
Normalized Age
2110 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-13.8
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
fine beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RbJr-VP: One otic capsule and both periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in fine beach gravel. The weathered skull is 122 cm wide.

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