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- Lab number
- S-3557
- Field number
- 93-DCA-231
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 5.3 km southwest of Firkin Point, 8.5 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 G/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4960 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 5110 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QjHr-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 70% buried upside down in coarse beach gravel. The slightly weathered skull is 160 cm wide. Other bones, including a mandible and maxillary bones, are scattered about. Fragments of another skull lie 2 m away.