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- Lab number
- S-3357
- Field number
- 90-DCA-475
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 26 km northwest of the head of Bernier Bay, 19 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 G/04
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3780 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 3935 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.3
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Bernier Bay
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- OgHw-VP: A fragmented otic capsule and periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull partly embedded in moderately drained beach gravel, capped by peat, extending below frost table. The skull is 180 cm wide. A rib and a vertebral disk are located 12 m from the skull.