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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.

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