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Lab number
S-3543
Field number
93-DCA-248
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
2.2 km southwest of Firkin Point, 4.5 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 G/10
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3640 ± 140
Normalized Age
3720 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-19.9
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QjHq-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull resting upright on very coarse beach gravel. The skull is 182 cm wide.

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