Whale
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: Asia & Middle East Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Paleogene - Eocene
label: Notes
content: This is a 3D print of a Maiacetus whale cranium, mandible, and forelimb. It is a cast made of plastic PLA filament and a coat of resin. It is painted to replicate a fossil of Maiacetus, an extinct genus of whales that walked on land and had webbed feet. The 3D print is mostly brown in color. The forelimb is in 3 parts and each part measures around 10 cm long and 3 cm wide. The cranium and mandible casts together measure around 24 cm x 12 cm x 10 cm in size.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Jan 2024
label: Stratigraphy
content: Habib Rahi Formation
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Kunvit, Habib Rahi Formation, Asia, Pakistan, Balochistan Province
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Maiacetus inuus
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO404740
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Cetacea, Protocetidae
physicalDescription: label: Is this real?
content: No, it's a cast.