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- Lab number
- S-3258
- Field number
- 89-DCA-472
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by J. Hooper and A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 35 km southwest of Imek Point, 1 km inland, south side of Berlinguet Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3320 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 3480 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Berlinguet Inlet, 18 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHr-VP: Both periotic bones and an otic capsule were collected in situ from a bowhead skull well embedded in beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull is 144 cm wide.