Whale
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: axis (2nd cervical vertebra)
label: Notes
content: This specimen is the axis, or second cervical vertebra, of the neck of a Cetacea, a large and distinct order of carnivorous aquatic mammals commonly known as whales. Whales typically have the most compressed necks in length and most restrictive necks in movement. This vertebra is 4.5cm thick and measures 15.5cm x 7cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 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: Cetacea
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO53480
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Whippomorpha