Discovery of a pleistocene mysticete whale, Georgia Bight (USA)

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Garrison, Ervan G ^a   McFall, Greg ^b   Cherkinsky, Alexander ^a   Noakes, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Georgia Bight; Mysticete; Pleistocene; Whale

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TAXONOMY; WHALE;

GEORGIA; SAINT CATHERINES ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

CETACEA;

EID: 84887582711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/323     Document Type: Article

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