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- Lab number
- S-3035
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke and C.R. Harington)
- Locality
- 40 m asl, northeast coast of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 560 A/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 25, 0098
- Measured Age
- 7475 ± 220
- Normalized Age
- 7635 ± 220
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- turf-covered mound on a raised beach overlooking Nansen Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- TeJi-VP: A bowhead cranium was found 26 m downslope from the main skeleton, on a soliflucting surface. The skeleton was not articulated, "but there was a rough order in which the vertebrae were scattered out over a distance of ~19 metres." Subsequent studies have found no supporting evidence that a bowhead whale population was established so far north during the early Holocene. Dyke and England (n.d.) conclude that this record "must presently be seen, if the age determination is accurate, as the result of a brief exceptional condition, perhaps one warm summer, or perhaps as the stranding of a far-rafted carcass locked in sea ice."