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   <dc:title>New fossil remains of the commensal barnacle Cryptolepas rhachianecti provide evidence of gray whales in the prehistoric South Pacific</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Taylor, Larry</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Abella, Juan</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Morales Saldaña, Jorge Manuel</dc:creator>
   <dcterms:abstract>Altres ajuts: CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya</dcterms:abstract>
   <dcterms:abstract>We report the finding of two partial specimens of Cryptolepas rhachianecti (Cirripedia, Coronulidae), a coronulid barnacle known only to inhabit the skin of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus), in Pleistocene-aged sediments from the Canoa Basin, Ecuador. While the historical range of gray whales includes the North Pacific and North Atlantic, to our knowledge this is the first inferred evidence of a gray whale population having resided within the South Pacific. We describe the two Cryptolepas rhachianecti fossils, use isotopic analysis to investigate evidence of migration in their host whales, and discuss their implications for our understanding of gray whale evolutionary history.</dcterms:abstract>
   <dcterms:issued>2021</dcterms:issued>
   <dc:type>Article</dc:type>
   <dc:relation>Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/BP-00223</dc:relation>
   <dc:relation>Journal of paleontology ; (December 2021), p. 1-8</dc:relation>
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