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Lab number
S-3571
Field number
94-DCA-169
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km east of Cape Skogn, Cape Hardy Lowland, 2.3 m asl, Jones Sound coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
48 G/16
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3550 ± 150
Normalized Age
3695 ± 150
δ13C (per mil)
-16.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Jones Sound
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QkHm-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull 90% buried in coarse beach gravel. This sample is in the first raised beach (locally) which here forms a low scarp.

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