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- Lab number
- S-3228
- Field number
- 89-DCA-044
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.8 km northwest of the mouth of Tikiraq River, east coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 20 m asl, Admiralty Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/14
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3880 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4040 ± 80
- 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: A complete otic capsule, a broken capsule, and a periotic bone were collected in situ from a bowhead whale cranium 95% buried in beach gravel. Jim Savelle in 1992 noted that this skull was dorsal side up and measured its width as 127 cm.