The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation

• Published in: Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Field, Daniel J., Boessenecker, Robert, Racicot, Rachel A., Ásbjörnsdóttir, Lovísa, Jónasson, Kristján, Hsiang, Allison Y., Behlke, Adam D., Vinther, Jakob
• Other Authors: O'Regan, Hannah, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Paleontology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Tjörnes; baleen whales; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12275; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fpala.12275; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pala.12275; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/pala.12275; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/pala.12275

Abstract Extant baleen whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti) are a disparate and species‐rich group, but little is known about their fossil record in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean, a region that supports considerable extant cetacean diversity. Iceland's geographical setting, dividing North Atlantic and...