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Lab number
S-3526
Field number
93-DCA-229
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
4.9 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
5050 ± 160
Normalized Age
5205 ± 160
δ13C (per mil)
-15.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
medium 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 99% buried upside down in medium beach gravel, capped by peat. The weathered skull is 216 cm wide. Other bones, including a mandible, are scattered about.

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