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- Lab number
- S-3144
- Field number
- 89-DCA-067
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 7.4 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 16 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3680 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 3840 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Admiralty Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OkHs-VP: One periotic bone and both otic capsules were collected in situ from a bowhead cranium 90% buried in beach gravel. The cranium is more than 110 cm wide. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was ventral side up and collected the other periotic (his sample B92-154).