Cerorhinca monocerata, Auk egg
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Description:
A rhinoceros auklet egg collected from the Kuril Islands by A. Ouston and later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 16/1, Ouston Collection
- Site: Russia; Kuril Islands
- Site Number: NH2F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Cerorhinca
- Species: Cerorhinca monocerata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8876
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