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Balaenoptera bertae n. sp. (Figs 11-15) HOLOTYPE. — UCMP 219078, a partial skull lacking the premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, jugals, tympanic bullae, and bodies of the petrosal, excavated by R. W. Boessenecker, E. Johnson, T. Palladino, and M. Berrini from UCMP locality V99849 from August 12-15, 2005...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4818610 2023-05-15T15:36:11+02:00 Balaenoptera BERTAE N., n. Boessenecker, Robert W. 2013-12-31 https://zenodo.org/record/4818610 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4818610 unknown info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E7DD69FFC5867B2466798FFE2E3F51 doi:10.5252/g2013n4a5 http://zenodo.org/record/4538200 http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDEA511FFD0865D27477C65FF9B3B38 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538229 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538231 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538233 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538237 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538241 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538243 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538245 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4538247 doi:10.5281/zenodo.4818609 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit https://zenodo.org/record/4818610 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4818610 oai:zenodo.org:4818610 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans, pp. 815-940 in Geodiversitas 35(4) 836-852 Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Cetacea Balaenopteridae Balaenoptera info:eu-repo/semantics/other publication-taxonomictreatment 2013 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.481861010.5252/g2013n4a510.5281/zenodo.453822910.5281/zenodo.453823110.5281/zenodo.453823310.5281/zenodo.453823710.5281/zenodo.453824110.5281/zenodo.453824310.5281/zenodo.453824510.5281/zenodo.453824710.5281/zenodo.4818609 2023-03-11T01:15:00Z Balaenoptera bertae n. sp. (Figs 11-15) HOLOTYPE. — UCMP 219078, a partial skull lacking the premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, jugals, tympanic bullae, and bodies of the petrosal, excavated by R. W. Boessenecker, E. Johnson, T. Palladino, and M. Berrini from UCMP locality V99849 from August 12-15, 2005. TENTATIVELY REFERRED SPECIMENS. — UCMP 131815, a partial juvenile cranium including the vertex, supraorbital processes of the frontals, palatines, and tips of the zygomatic processes collected in 1985 by a UCMP party from UCMP locality V85027; UCMP uncataloged, an isolated squamosal from UCMP locality V99868. ETYMOLOGY. — Honouring Dr Annalisa Berta (San Diego State University), for her many contributions to the study of fossil cetaceans and pinnipeds. DIAGNOSIS. — Balaenoptera bertae n. sp. is a small balaenopterid (estimated bizygomatic width of 61.4 cm), smaller in size than extant Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804, characterized by: broadly triangular occipital shield that laterally overhangs the temporal fossa and exhibits a flattened apex, large occipital condyles, little to no parietal exposed dorsally at the transversely narrow vertex, squamosal with short, anteriorly directed zygomatic process, posteriorly elongate postglenoid process, prominent squamosal crease, frontal with rectangular supraorbital process with transversely oriented anterior margin, frontal that is abruptly depressed below the vertex and obliquely oriented so that this surface and anterior wing of parietal are visible in dorsal aspect, large petrosal fossa (sensu Mead & Fordyce 2009), and a posterior process of the petrotympanic that is relatively short and inflated. STRATIGRAPHIC OCCURRENCE. — Uppermost part of the San Gregorio section of the Purisima Formation (sensu Powell et al. 2007) that is bracketed below by an ash bed correlated with the 3.3-3.4 Ma Putah Tuff (Powell et al. 2007) and above by another ash bed correlated with the 2.5 ± 0.2 Ma Ishi Tuff. Ŋis indicates an age of 3.35-2.5 Ma, or Early to Late ... Other/Unknown Material Balaenoptera acutorostrata Zenodo Fossa ENVELOPE(9.795,9.795,62.990,62.990) |
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Balaenoptera bertae n. sp. (Figs 11-15) HOLOTYPE. — UCMP 219078, a partial skull lacking the premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, jugals, tympanic bullae, and bodies of the petrosal, excavated by R. W. Boessenecker, E. Johnson, T. Palladino, and M. Berrini from UCMP locality V99849 from August 12-15, 2005. TENTATIVELY REFERRED SPECIMENS. — UCMP 131815, a partial juvenile cranium including the vertex, supraorbital processes of the frontals, palatines, and tips of the zygomatic processes collected in 1985 by a UCMP party from UCMP locality V85027; UCMP uncataloged, an isolated squamosal from UCMP locality V99868. ETYMOLOGY. — Honouring Dr Annalisa Berta (San Diego State University), for her many contributions to the study of fossil cetaceans and pinnipeds. DIAGNOSIS. — Balaenoptera bertae n. sp. is a small balaenopterid (estimated bizygomatic width of 61.4 cm), smaller in size than extant Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804, characterized by: broadly triangular occipital shield that laterally overhangs the temporal fossa and exhibits a flattened apex, large occipital condyles, little to no parietal exposed dorsally at the transversely narrow vertex, squamosal with short, anteriorly directed zygomatic process, posteriorly elongate postglenoid process, prominent squamosal crease, frontal with rectangular supraorbital process with transversely oriented anterior margin, frontal that is abruptly depressed below the vertex and obliquely oriented so that this surface and anterior wing of parietal are visible in dorsal aspect, large petrosal fossa (sensu Mead & Fordyce 2009), and a posterior process of the petrotympanic that is relatively short and inflated. STRATIGRAPHIC OCCURRENCE. — Uppermost part of the San Gregorio section of the Purisima Formation (sensu Powell et al. 2007) that is bracketed below by an ash bed correlated with the 3.3-3.4 Ma Putah Tuff (Powell et al. 2007) and above by another ash bed correlated with the 2.5 ± 0.2 Ma Ishi Tuff. Ŋis indicates an age of 3.35-2.5 Ma, or Early to Late ... |
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Balaenoptera BERTAE N., n. |
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A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans, pp. 815-940 in Geodiversitas 35(4) 836-852 |
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