New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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PLEISTOCENE ROSS SEAL (OMMATOPHOCA ROSSI) FROM NEW ZEALAND (NOTE)

Judith E. King

School of Zoology, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033, Australia

Abstract A fossil seal jaw from the Early Pleistocene (Wanganui Series; Hautawan Stage) of Napier, New Zealand, is identified as that of an Ommatophoca rossi juvenile of less than 1.8 m body length.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7 (4) : 391-7
(Received jor publication 17 April 1972)

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