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- Lab number
- S-3526
- Field number
- 93-DCA-229
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4.9 km southwest of Firkin Point, 8.5 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
- 5050 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 5205 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- medium beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QjHr-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in medium beach gravel, capped by peat. The weathered skull is 216 cm wide. Other bones, including a mandible, are scattered about.