Northeastern Pacific Pleistocene Sea Otters
Previously known by only one fossil bone from Oregon, the record of the sea otter is supplemented by description of 11 bones newly found in Late Pleistocene deposits at San Pedro and on Santa Rosa Island and one tooth from an Early Pleistocene deposit at San Pedro, southern California, all considere...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/f66-177 2023-12-17T10:46:28+01:00 Northeastern Pacific Pleistocene Sea Otters Mitchell, Edward 1966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f66-177 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f66-177 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada volume 23, issue 12, page 1897-1911 ISSN 0015-296X General Medicine journal-article 1966 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/f66-177 2023-11-19T13:39:31Z Previously known by only one fossil bone from Oregon, the record of the sea otter is supplemented by description of 11 bones newly found in Late Pleistocene deposits at San Pedro and on Santa Rosa Island and one tooth from an Early Pleistocene deposit at San Pedro, southern California, all considered representative of the living species Enhydra lutris. Faunal associations suggest that the animals lived with cool-water faunas in areas of shallow to moderate depth near islands. The long-accepted hypothesis that E. lutris evolved from "Lutra reevei" during the Pliocene in the North Atlantic and migrated to the North Pacific is rejected on chronologic and zoogeographic grounds. The sea otter may be a North Pacific endemic autochthon. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Pacific Near Islands ENVELOPE(173.132,173.132,52.801,52.801) Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 23 12 1897 1911 |
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Previously known by only one fossil bone from Oregon, the record of the sea otter is supplemented by description of 11 bones newly found in Late Pleistocene deposits at San Pedro and on Santa Rosa Island and one tooth from an Early Pleistocene deposit at San Pedro, southern California, all considered representative of the living species Enhydra lutris. Faunal associations suggest that the animals lived with cool-water faunas in areas of shallow to moderate depth near islands. The long-accepted hypothesis that E. lutris evolved from "Lutra reevei" during the Pliocene in the North Atlantic and migrated to the North Pacific is rejected on chronologic and zoogeographic grounds. The sea otter may be a North Pacific endemic autochthon. |
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Northeastern Pacific Pleistocene Sea Otters |
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