The earliest-known fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, from the Early Pleistocene of northern California, U.S.A.

Abstract

Citation for this article: Tsai, C.-H., and R. W. Boessenecker. 2017. The earliest-known fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, from the Early Pleistocene of Northern California, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1306536.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank C. Pirrone for collecting and donating the fossil specimen to the University of California Museum of Paleontology for study; P. Holroyd for curatorial assistance; the editor O. Lambert for helpful guidance and suggestions; T. Kimura and an anonymous reviewer for constructive comments; and D. J. Bohaska, R. E. Fordyce, P. Holroyd, F. G. Marx, N. D. Pyenson, Y. Tajima, and T. K. Yamada for access to comparative materials and photographs. C.H.T. was supported by a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship and partly by a Burke Museum Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Study Grant during this study.