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Lab number
S-3590
Field number
94-DCA-233
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
4.2 km northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 20.2 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
9150 ± 190
Normalized Age
9280 ± 190
δ13C (per mil)
-16.8
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QdHl-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 90% buried upside down in coarse beach gravel. The weathered skull is 138 cm wide, but the small periotics suggest that this was a small animal.

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