Harbor Porpoise
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
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: Notes
content: This periotic, or ear bone, is from a harbor porpoise, an aquatic mammal found in shallow coastal waters. The ear bone is located underneath the outer skin at the inner end of the lower jaw. All sound is received through the hollow fatty lower jaw and sent directly to the ear bone. This ear bone is 1.5cm thick and measures 3.75cm x 2cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2020
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: Phocoena phocoena
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO52088
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Odontoceti, Phocoenidae