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- Lab number
- S-3399
- Field number
- 91-DCA-037
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- head of Koluktoo Bay, Milne Inlet, 6-6.5 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/02
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2720 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2875 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach in the Eclipse Sound region
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PaHd-VP: Periotic bones and fractured otic capsules were collected in situ from both sides of a bowhead skull fragment 80% buried upside down in beach gravel. The skull fragment is 148 cm wide with an estimated 60 cm missing due to weathering of the temporal processes (estimated 208 cm wide).