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Lab number
S-3540
Field number
93-DCA-242
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.5 km southwest of Firkin Point, 12.5 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
5780 ± 160
Normalized Age
5910 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-16.9
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 99% buried in coarse beach gravel. The weathered skull is 202 cm wide.

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