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Lab number
S-3522
Field number
93-DCA-002
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
4.5 km northwest of Providence Mountain, 9 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 G/09
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
2580 ± 160
Normalized Age
2740 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-15.1
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
shingle beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QkJm-VP: An otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected from the left side of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in shingle beach gravel capped with humic peat and a mat of vegetation. The skull is too weathered to measure width.

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