Investigation of Whalebone from the Miocene Kovran Locality (Kamchatka Krai, Russia)

Dokl Biol Sci. 2018 Nov;483(1):222-224. doi: 10.1134/S0012496618060029. Epub 2019 Jan 3.

Abstract

New information on the microstructures, general morphology, and features of preservation of plates of a whalebone from the Miocene Kovran locality in the Kamchatka Peninsula are provided. The plates have a chevron-like bend which is absent in extant Balaenopteridae, Balaenidae, and Eschrichtiidae. This shape is possibly related to the filtration mechanism characteristic of these whales.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bone and Bones / ultrastructure*
  • Fossils*
  • Siberia
  • Whales* / anatomy & histology
  • Whales* / classification