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- Lab number
- S-3575
- Field number
- 94-DCA-187
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 7.7 km southwest of Cape Hardy, 43 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
- 9050 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 9180 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QkHl-VP: A fractured otic capsule and the periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried in medium beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull was not measured but is that of a small animal according to the size of the earbones.