Synthliboramphus antiquus, Auk egg
Description:
An ancient murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) egg collected from the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea. Incubation of the egg is noted as "well advanced" and a "single egg laid in burrow hole on rocky island." Identification was confirmed by the prescence of adult birds. Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 52.15, Cutts collection
- Site: Bering Sea
- Site Number: NH106B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Sythliboramphus
- Species: Synthliboramphus antiquus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1826
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