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Lab number
S-2920
Field number
86-DCA-552
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
3.5 m asl, west coast of Prescott Island, Peel Sound, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 D/02
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
1585 ± 70
Normalized Age
1745 ± 75
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Peel Sound, 3.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PgLd-VP: A well-preserved skull base of a juvenile bowhead whale was partly embedded in raised beach gravel. The sample consists of a frost shattered otic capsule which was scattered in the beach gravel around a few square metres. The skull base is 1 metre wide.

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