Mummified and skeletal southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ) from the Victoria Land Coast, Ross Sea, Antarctica

We report on an accumulation of mummified southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Inexpressible Island on the Victoria Land Coast (VLC), western Ross Sea, Antarctica. This accumulation is unusual, as elephant seals typically breed and molt on sub‐Antarctic islands further north and do not cu...

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Published in:Marine Mammal Science
Main Authors: Koch, Paul L., Hall, Brenda L., de Bruyn, Mark, Hoelzel, A. Rus, Baroni, Carlo, Salvatore, Maria Cristina
Other Authors: Hoelzel, A. Ru
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Mirounga leonina mummy
paleoecology
paleoenvironment
Holocene
Antarctica
Ross Sea
Antarctic
Inexpressible Island
Victoria Land
Antarc*
Elephant Seals
Mirounga leonina
Southern Elephant Seals
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11568/950528
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12581
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.12581

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