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Lab number
S-3532
Field number
93-DCA-105
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.9 km north-northwest of Porden Point, Prince Alfred Bay, 18 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
3800 ± 150
Normalized Age
3955 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-15.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel and clay on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RbJr-VP: Both otic capsules and one periotic bone were collected from a bowhead skull 50% buried in beach gravel and clay, capped by peat. The weathered skull is 136 cm wide. The age agrees closely with the age of driftwood (GSC-5787; 3740 +/- 60 BP) collected from a nearby raised beach at 17.5 m altitude.

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