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Osteology
Skull
These measurements were taken when the skull had been cleaned and are correct.
Length (straight) (from tip of premax. to condyles taken below) = 477 cent.
Breadth (squamosal) = 180 "
Length of jaw (straight) = 450 "
" " " (curved) = 483."
Measurements of Finback No 6
1 Total length (total of three sections)
= 18630
3 Snout to eye
= 401
5 " " blowhole (center)
= 347
10 Length eye opening
= 9
12 notch of flukes to annus
= 570
16 " " " " post vert of dorsal = 4730
18 Length of pectoral (tip to head humerus)
= 230
19 " " " " " post. vert.
= 1430
20 " " " " ant. "
= 1930
21 Greatest breadth pectoral
= 60
22 Height dorsal (vertical)
= 43
2 " " (axial)
= 75
ant.-post length dorsal at base = 85
31 Length right blowhole straight
= 44
32 " left " "
= 41
33 Dist. apart of" (anteriorly)
= 5.
34 " " " postenially
= 250
40 Length row of baleen
= 400
41 " longest plate of baleen
= 80
42 Number plates " " (left side) = 332
43 " " " in right port. = 98
Snout to fore foot = 1350
snout = 74.5.