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- Lab number
- S-3525
- Field number
- 93-DCA-252
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 8.9 km southwest of Firkin Point, 30-30.5 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
- 8070 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 8205 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -16.5
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- QjHr-VP: An otic capsule and a periotic bone were collected from a large fragment of a bowhead skull 95% buried in beach gravel. It is located about 100 m west of sample 93-DCA-251 on the same strandline.