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Lab number
S-3535
Field number
93-DCA-149
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
18 km west-northwest of Porden Point, 4.3 km northwest of Cape Simpkinson, Prince Alfred Bay, 4.3 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/06
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
1060 ± 140
Normalized Age
1225 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-14.7
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RbJs-VP: An otic capsule and both periotic bones were collected from a bowhead skull 70% buried upside down in coarse beach gravel. The skull is 138 cm wide.

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