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Lab number
S-3557
Field number
93-DCA-231
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.3 km southwest of Firkin Point, 8.5 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
4960 ± 160
Normalized Age
5110 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-15.6
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
coarse beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QjHr-VP: Periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 70% buried upside down in coarse beach gravel. The slightly weathered skull is 160 cm wide. Other bones, including a mandible and maxillary bones, are scattered about. Fragments of another skull lie 2 m away.

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