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Lab number
S-3594
Field number
94-DCA-244
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.8 km north-northeast of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 17.5 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
8970 ± 190
Normalized Age
9105 ± 190
δ13C (per mil)
-16.6
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel and peat on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Additional information
Not shown in MAH, because it appears under ice due to the interval chosen for mapping.
Comments
QdHk-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down coarse beach gravel capped by peat. The weathered skull is 136 cm wide.

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