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- Lab number
- S-3591
- Field number
- 94-DCA-235
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.5 km northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 29 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
- 9740 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 9885 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel 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: An otic capsule and the periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 100% buried in medium beach gravel capped by peat. The weathered skull is 190 cm wide.