Image: Arktocara in lateral view
Description: Skull of Arktocara yakataga (USNM 214830) in left (A, B) and right (C, D) lateral views. (A) Illustrated left lateral view of skull with low opacity mask, interpretive line art, and labels for skull elements. Dotted lines indicate uncertainty of sutures and hatched lines indicate sediment obscuring the fossil. (B) photograph of skull in left lateral view, photography by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution. (C) Illustrated right lateral view of skull with low opacity mask, interpretive line art, and labels for skull elements. (D) photograph of skull in right lateral view, photography by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Title: Arktocara in lateral view
Credit: Boersma, A. (2016). "Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea". Peer J 4. DOI:10.7717/peerj.2321. PMC: 4991871.
Author: Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson
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