Dear Ana,
There are a number of books with general pictures of skulls - they are much easier to id from books that other elements of whale. Tinker ,
SW 1988. Whales of the World. EJ Brill, New York is the best general book, sorry can't find my copy at present to check the images for tooth detail. There are also books by Evans, Peter. G.H. Whales and Dolphins. New York: Facts on File, 1987 and Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood, and M.A. Webber. Marine Mammals of the World. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. 1993 - check out http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/bibliography.html for a full bibliography - I have't seen Bonner, Nigel W. Whales of the World. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003 to tell you how useful that is.
Many of the smaller cetacean teeth look fairly similiar - you could send an image of the tooth or the tooth itself to me - I am off to look at cetacea at the natural history museum in july and could ID it then for you. Ultimately Vicky Szabo and I are working towards a cetacean identification web site (inlcuding much morphometric data) - our visit to the BM is part of this - so hopefully some day soonish you will be able to just go to web site to look for your whale bone.
We shall consider images of teeth as well now, particuarly as they are often recoverd.
Good luck
jacqui
Jacqui Mulville
Lecturer in Bioarchaeology
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
Cardiff
CF10 3XU
Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
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Hi all
does anyone know some references about cetaceans teeth? or if there is
someone who works with these mammals, I would be grateful to contact me. I
have dentition at my site and I don't know which cetacea is. I have also a
tooth of Phocidea.
Thanks in advance!
Ana Mateos
Dpto. Prehistoria, Hª Antigua y Arqueología
Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
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