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- Lab number
- S-3588
- Field number
- 94-DCA-220
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 8.8 km north-northeast of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 5.5 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
- 8490 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 8630 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.2
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- Moved to the 8 ka sheet in MAH, as the 2-sigma limit extends to <8500 BP. It appears under ice on the 9 ka sheet.
- Comments
- QdHk-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 100% buried in till capped by thin beach gravel and peat.