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Lab number
S-3104
Field number
88-DCA-081
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8.2 km south of the mouth of Fitzgerald Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 11.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
57 H/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2720 ± 80
Normalized Age
2880 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
OlJf-VP: An otic capsule and periotic bone were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead cranium 70% buried in beach gravel.

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