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Lab number
S-3577
Field number
94-DCA-190
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8.9 km southwest of Cape Hardy, 7 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 H/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
4740 ± 150
Normalized Age
4885 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-16.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QkHl-VP: A periotic bone (ball-shaped part only) was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in very coarse beach gravel. The skull is too deeply embedded to measure. A thin layer of carbonate bedrock is exposed in a stream bed 100 m south of this sample. The beach gravel here is mostly shingle gravel of carbonate clasts and the till on the lowland is carbonate rich. All bedrock outcrop elsewhere on the lowland is gneiss.

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