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- Lab number
- S-3559
- Field number
- 93-DCA-135
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 9.2 km north-northeast of Porden Point, 9 km west-southwest of Reid Creek, Prince Alfred Bay, 3 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 59 B/07
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 1290 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 1425 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.7
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- RbJq-VP: An otic capsule and one periotic bone were collected from a bowhead skull 70% buried upside down in coarse beach gravel. The skull is 113 cm wide.