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Lab number
S-3599
Field number
94-DCA-290
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
9.7 km south of Lovell Point, 35 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 F/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
7630 ± 160
Normalized Age
7770 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-16.1
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QfJm-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a fragmented bowhead skull 90% buried upside down in medium beach gravel. The size of the periotic bone suggests that this was a small animal.

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