MARINE LIFE
Vertebrates
Whales (cont'd)
Similarily, the fossils of a beluga whale, the Delphinapterus leucas, were found in the Champlain Sea sediments of Lake Champlain in Vermont. A picture of its fossilized skull is shown below.
The fossils of many other whale species have been discovered in these marine sediments. They include Pocoena phocoena, the harbour porpoise; Megaptera novaeangliae, the humpback whale; and Balaeonoptera physalus, the finback whale.
