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- Lab number
- S-3330
- Field number
- 90-DCA-137
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 9 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2580 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 2745 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand and peat on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHq-VP: Two fractured otic capsules and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a broken up bowhead skull 90% buried in beach sand with a peat cap. The skull is upside down and >144 cm wide (about 164 cm wide allowing for weathering).