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- Lab number
- S-3595
- Field number
- 94-DCA-245
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 6.1 km north-northeast of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 13 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
- 9920 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 10055 ± 180
- 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: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried sideways in coarse beach gravel capped by peat. Elevation based on one altimeter measurement with 50 minutes between readings at site and at datum (camp). The site plots just below the 20 m contour on the 1:50000 topographic map which is related to mean sea level. In light of the long time interval in the altimetry, 13 m would seem to be too low for the sample elevation; 15 to 18 m is more reasonable.