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- Lab number
- S-3587
- Field number
- 94-DCA-214
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 7.9 km west-northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 8.2 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
- 8570 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 8705 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.6
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel on a raised beach overlooking Lancaster Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QdHl-VP: Two complete sets of ear bones (otic capsules and periotic bones) were collected from a bowhead skull 99% buried upright in medium beach gravel. The skull was not exposed enough to measure.