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Tuatara: Volume 15, Issue 3, December 1967

PLATE 1 — Figure 1: Seal carcase in situ on glacial moraine, North Fork, Wright Valley (No. 30, Snout to tail tip: 64 inches). Fig. 2: Underside of seal (No. 30) showing hair remaining on surfaces protected from erosion. Fig. 3: Blood and sand clinging to the lower jaw of a ‘fresh’ carcase, North Fork, Wright Valley (seal No. 46). Note the patch of blood-soaked moraine gravel at lower right where the jaw formerly contacted the surface. Fig. 4: Numerous small sand-encrusted wounds on underside o…

PLATE 1Figure 1: Seal carcase in situ on glacial moraine, North Fork, Wright Valley (No. 30, Snout to tail tip: 64 inches). Fig. 2: Underside of seal (No. 30) showing hair remaining on surfaces protected from erosion. Fig. 3: Blood and sand clinging to the lower jaw of a ‘fresh’ carcase, North Fork, Wright Valley (seal No. 46). Note the patch of blood-soaked moraine gravel at lower right where the jaw formerly contacted the surface. Fig. 4: Numerous small sand-encrusted wounds on underside of the seal No. 46. Fig. 5: Carcase from Wright Valley: samples from this seal (No. 7) gave a radiocarbon ‘age’ of 100 years. Fig. 6: ‘Minimal remains’ (seal No. 36), North Fork, Wright Valley; radiocarbon ‘age’ 780 years.

PLATE 1
Figure 1: Seal carcase in situ on glacial moraine, North Fork, Wright Valley (No. 30, Snout to tail tip: 64 inches). Fig. 2: Underside of seal (No. 30) showing hair remaining on surfaces protected from erosion. Fig. 3: Blood and sand clinging to the lower jaw of a ‘fresh’ carcase, North Fork, Wright Valley (seal No. 46). Note the patch of blood-soaked moraine gravel at lower right where the jaw formerly contacted the surface. Fig. 4: Numerous small sand-encrusted wounds on underside of the seal No. 46. Fig. 5: Carcase from Wright Valley: samples from this seal (No. 7) gave a radiocarbon ‘age’ of 100 years. Fig. 6: ‘Minimal remains’ (seal No. 36), North Fork, Wright Valley; radiocarbon ‘age’ 780 years.