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Lab number
S-3593
Field number
94-DCA-240
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2.6 km north-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
9110 ± 190
Normalized Age
9245 ± 190
δ13C (per mil)
-16.5
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
peat and gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QdHk-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 100% buried upside down in peat on coarse beach gravel. The weathered skull is 182 cm wide.

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