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- Lab number
- S-3293
- Field number
- 90-DCA-039
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Jungersen Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 4 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/08
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1390 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1540 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.7
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OiHn-VP: A fractured otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 10 % buried in beach sand and encased in peat. The skull is 118 cm wide. Raised beaches here are well vegetated.