Santa Cruz (Purisima Formation) Fossil Site Reveals New Whale Species

[Oxytropidoceras]

Secret Santa Cruz fossil site reveals new whale species

by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2014

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Secret-Santa-Cruz-fossil-site-reveals-new-whale-5352262.php

Balaenoptera bertae: New Fossil Whale Species

Discovered. (Robert Boessenecker, a PhD student with

the University of Otago, has discovered an extinct

pecies of whale that lived during Pliocene, 3.35 –

2.5 million years ago. Sci-News.com, Feb. 7, 2014

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-balaenoptera-bertae-new-fossil-whale-species-01750.html

Strange marine mammals of ancient North Pacific

revealed, University of Otago, February 6, 2014

http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago064816.html

The paper is:

Boessenecker, R. W., 2013, A new marine vertebrate

assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima

Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds

and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas. vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 815–940.

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/g2013n4a5

An earlier article is:

Fossil hunters in Santa Cruz make whale of a find

by David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 8, 2013

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Fossil-hunters-in-Santa-Cruz-make-whale-of-a-find-4797539.php

Yours,

Paul H.

[Auspex]

There's Bobby getting ink again; WTG!

[xonenine]

congrats, and very nice article also.

[jpc]

Three cheers for Bobby... all the way from NZ.

[fossilized6s]

Thanks for sharing. Congrats! That's a LOT of work, but it's like finding the Valhalla of marine mammals!

[Boesse]

Hey, thanks guys! It's nice to get some recognition for a project that spanned almost my entire adult life =D