Fossil Skull of <em>Akrtocara yakataga</em> from Above (IMAGE)

Smithsonian

Fossil Skull of <em>Akrtocara yakataga</em> from Above

Caption

The skull of Akrtocara yakataga rests on an 1875 ethnographic map of Alaska drawn by William Healey Dall, a broadly trained naturalist who worked for several US government agencies, including the Smithsonian, and honored with several species of living mammals, including Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli). Near the skull of Arktocara is a cetacean tooth, likely belonging to a killer whale (Orcinus orca), collected by Ale&scaron; Hrdli&ccaron;ka, a Smithsonian anthropologist who worked extensively in Alaska, and an Oligocene whale tooth collected by Donald Miller, a geologist who worked for the US Geological Survey, and collected the type specimen of Arktocara. Donald Orth's dictionary of Alaskan place names, published by the USGS, bookends the image.

Credit

James Di Loreto, Smithsonian

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