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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.