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Lab number
S-3430
Field number
91-DCA-199
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
bay northwest of Lavoie Point, Navy Board Inlet coast of Borden Peninsula, 7 m asl, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 A/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3940 ± 110
Normalized Age
4100 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-15.1
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Navy Board Inlet
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeHb-VP: Otic capsule fragments and periotic bones were collected in situ from both sides of a very fragmented bowhead skull 99% buried in beach gravel capped by thin peat. The skull is too broken to measure, but the size of the periotics suggests that this was a juvenile animal.

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