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- Lab number
- S-3585
- Field number
- 94-DCA-210
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.22 km northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 16 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
- 9170 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 9290 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.4
- 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 fragmented bowhead skull 100% buried in fine beach gravel and capped by peat. The weathered skull is 116 cm wide, but the size of the periotics indicates that the animal was small.