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- Lab number
- S-3338
- Field number
- 90-DCA-149
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- Sunday Bay, Admiralty Inlet, Borden Peninsula, 17,5 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/15
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3860 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 4025 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.7
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- sand and gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHq-VP: An otic capsule and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried in beach sand. The skull is upright and 144 cm wide. It is an exceptionally nice specimen, because the maxillary bones are still fused to the cranium.