A fossil physeteroid cetacean from Santa Barbara County, California迅捷鲸论文截图.docVIP

A FOSSIL PHYSETEROID CETACEAN FEOM SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By Remington Kellogg Of the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. 8. Department of Agriculture The discovery of a skull of a fossil physeteroid whale anywhere is worth recording, and when one is found on the Pacific Coast of North America, the occurrence is all the more important in view of the present inadequate record of their presence there during tertiary times. The living sperm whale is almost cosmopolitan in its distribution, and there is considerable evidence to support the assumption that the geographical range of many, if n