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Lab number
S-3575
Field number
94-DCA-187
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
7.7 km southwest of Cape Hardy, 43 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 H/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
9050 ± 180
Normalized Age
9180 ± 180
δ13C (per mil)
-17.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QkHl-VP: A fractured otic capsule and the periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried in medium beach gravel and capped by peat. The skull was not measured but is that of a small animal according to the size of the earbones.

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