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Whale skull bone (Mesoplodon layardii (Strap-toothed whale tympano-perotic bones))

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Notes: Right tympano-periotic bones. Juvenile (immature), probably female [washed up at Port Sussex, East Falkland Island, in [late] 1875]. Collected by H.N. Moseley. Challenger specimen C (see citation) when they visited the Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, shortly after.

Citations: Parker, W. 1881: Report on the Bones of Cetacea collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the Years 1873-1876. Page 1. This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Zoology Volume 1, 1881.