Santa Cruz, California Fossil Site Reveals New Whale Species
Secret Santa Cruz fossil site reveals new whale species
by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2014
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Secret-Santa-Cruz-fossil-site-reveals-new-whale-5352262.php
Balaenoptera bertae: New Fossil Whale Species
Discovered. (Robert Boessenecker, a PhD student with
the University of Otago, has discovered an extinct
pecies of whale that lived during Pliocene, 3.35 –
2.5 million years ago. Sci-News.com, Feb. 7, 2014
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-balaenoptera-bertae-new-fossil-whale-species-01750.html
Strange marine mammals of ancient North Pacific
revealed, University of Otago, February 6, 2014
http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago064816.html
An earlier article is:
Fossil hunters in Santa Cruz make whale of a find
by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 8, 2013
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Fossil-hunters-in-Santa-Cruz-make-whale-of-a-find-4797539.php
The paper is:
Boessenecker, R. W., 2013, A new marine vertebrate
assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima
Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds
and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas. vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 815–940.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/g2013n4a5
Yours,
Paul H.
