Data from: Rewriting the history of an extinction - was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St. Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?

• Main Authors: Crerar, Lorelei D., Crerar, Andrew P., Parsons, E. C. M., Domning, Daryl P.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Steller's sea cows; Hydrodamalis gigas; 1000CE to 1768CE; new population; extirpation; Bering Strait; Pacific; Lawrence Island; Balaena mysticetus; Bering Island; inuit; St Lawrence Island; Steller's sea cow; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4995767; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vf86p

The Kommandorskiye Islands population of Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was extirpated ca 1768 CE. Until now, Steller's sea cow was thought to be restricted in historic times to Bering and Copper Islands, Russia, with other records in the last millennium from the western Aleutian I...