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Lab number
S-3578
Field number
94-DCA-192
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
8.6 km southwest of Cape Hardy, 31.5 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 H/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
8170 ± 170
Normalized Age
8290 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-17.6
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QkHl-VP: A periotic bone (ball-shaped part only) was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in fine beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull is too deeply embedded to measure.

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