Whale
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1977
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US Southeast (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY)
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 - Neogene
label: Notes
content: Bones of the flipper; immature specimen.
label: Notes
content: These specimens are fossilized pectoral flipper bones of an immature whale. While swimming, a whale uses both flippers to stop and steer. Each bone is about 1.5-2.25cm thick and measures between 5cm-9.5cm x 2.25cm-4.5cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 10
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2020
label: Stratigraphy
content: Yorktown
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Lee Creek Mine, North America, United States, North Carolina, Beaufort County
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: Cetacea
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO50648
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Whippomorpha