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Lab number
S-3583
Field number
94-DCA-207
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
0.7 km north of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 5.5-7 m asl, Lancaster Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 E/12
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8420 ± 190
Normalized Age
8540 ± 190
δ13C (per mil)
-17.4
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QdHk-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a fractured bowhead skull 100% buried in medium beach gravel and capped by peat. The weathered skull is 120 cm wide.

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