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- Lab number
- S-3589
- Field number
- 94-DCA-230
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 4.2 km west-northwest of Cape Home, Croker Bay, 9 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
- 8820 ± 200
- Normalized Age
- 8940 ± 200
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.6
- 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 95% buried upside down in eolian sand and medium beach gravel capped by peat. The skull is 120 cm wide and the periotics are small.