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Lab number
S-3538
Field number
93-DCA-227
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.2 km southwest of Firkin Point, 24.5-25 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
7750 ± 180
Normalized Age
7885 ± 180
δ13C (per mil)
-16.6
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
medium 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 50% buried upright in medium beach gravel, capped by peat. The weathered skull is 154 cm wide with about 10 cm missing from each end.

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