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- Lab number
- S-3586
- Field number
- 94-DCA-211
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 3.8 km west-northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 3.5 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
- 8390 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 8520 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QdHl-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull resting upside down on medium beach gravel and capped by eolian sand. The skull is not exposed enough to measure. The site is on the lowest raised beach ridge locally. The modern beach in this region is quite different from the series of raised beaches. The raised beaches are much less bulky than the modern one. The modern beach has a relief of as much as 6 metres, is coarser than the raised beaches (many boulders) and dams large lagoons that have no counterparts in the raised beach sequence. It appears to have resulted from a long period of submergence following the initial regression recorded by the raised beaches.