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Common Name

Killer Whale

Specimen Numbers

NMML-1850

Species

Species: orca

Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Superclass: Tetrapoda Class: Mammalia Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Eutheria Order: Cetacea Suborder: Odontoceti Family: Delphinidae Genus: Orcinus Species: orca 388

Elements

Element	Length	Width	Thickness
Cranium	987.381	677.279	454.5
Mandible Right	823.397	146.892	271.986
Mandible Left	814.488	167.693	260.197
Cervical Vertebrae 1 - Atlas	177.136	412.088	276.091
Cervical Vertebrae 2 - Axis	177.136	412.088	276.091

Specimen Elements

City

Dungeness Spit

Age

Modern to Modern

Collector

Unknown Unknown

Collection

PTMSC

Sex

Female

Is Complete

Yes

Date Published

12/22/2015

Repository

Port Townsend Marine Science Center

Country: USA State: Washington - - Location: Dungeness Spit

Cause Of Death

Illness

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Comments

On Wednesday, Jan 2, 2002, residents of the cliff above Dungeness Spit reported an orca whale, apparently dead, stranded on a low lying sandbar in a marshy area just south of Dungeness Spit on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.