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- Lab number
- S-3541
- Field number
- 93-DCA-238
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4 km southwest of Firkin Point, 11-11.5 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 G/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 5130 ± 260
- Normalized Age
- 5265 ± 260
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface of beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QjHq-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull resting on beach gravel, capped by 10 cm of peat. The skull is 184 cm wide.