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- Lab number
- S-3076
- Field number
- 88-DCA-002
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 5 km southwest of the mouth of McBean Bay, west coast of Brodeur Peninsula, 7 m asl, Prince Regent Inlet, northwest Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 A/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 2950 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 3110 ± 75
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Prince Regent Inlet
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PdJf-VP: An otic capsule was 80% buried in raised beach gravel with no cranium nearby. Other bowhead bones are scattered about an area 100 m x 100 m, the largest being about 60 cm wide.