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Lab number
S-3612
Field number
94-DCA-196
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2.8 km northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 19 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
9200 ± 170
Normalized Age
9340 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-16.4
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 fragmented bowhead skull 99% buried in medium beach gravel. The size of the periotic bones indicates that this was a small animal (calf).

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