When Alter first had the idea to trace the history of gray whales
from subfossils in the early 2000s, she quickly hit a major snag; gray whale subfossils are hard to come by.
Not exact matches
She has been particularly fortunate to have material borrowed
from the Duke University Primate Center's excellent collection of
subfossil materials.
Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R, Dahlgren TG (2014) A Swedish
subfossil find of a bowhead whale
from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south - west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867).
The
subfossil remains of now extinct gray whales
from the Atlantic coasts of England and Sweden were used by Gray to make the first scientific description of a species then surviving only in Pacific waters.
Archaeological and paleontological research has identified more than 100 fox bones
from more than 35 different archaeological and
subfossil sites across the archipelago.
And, in any event, this has nothing to do with CRU's failure to even disclose the existence of 1021 crossdated
subfossil trees
from the two early transects.
CRU should have asked Shiyatov for the right to use the
subfossil data
from their 1968 and 1983 transects and, if they were refused, this should have been reported as well.
CRU's Failure to Use or Disclose the Shiyatov Dataset In a recent CA post, I observed that Shiyatov had crossdated 1021
subfossil trees
from his 1968 and 1983 transects plus hundreds of living trees,
from which the samples sent to Schweingruber were a minute subset.
The analysis examined both «living and
subfossil pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees
from 14 lakes and 3 lakeshore sites.»
I'm guessing that most of the ancient
subfossil stuff that Baillie and Co. have harvested comes
from parks and preserves, not private land, and that requires a permit.
The issue in the original chronology was that there were relatively few late cores and that the location
from which they came was inhomogeneous with
subfossil cores..
Tree - ring width (and limited density [Luckman and Wilson, 2005]-RRB- data derived
from living and
subfossil wood of coniferous tree species were compiled
from 66 high - elevation and latitudinal treeline North American and Eurasian sites.
In an earlier posting, I pointed out the striking change in altitude of samples at this site, with 13th century samples averaging
from an altitude of about 310 m. (NATO 1996, Figure 4, top panel), while modern samples all come
from between 200 and 250 m. Briffa says that the elevations of the
subfossil cores are known precisely, but not the modern cores (p. 35).
Thousand years of climate change reconstructed
from chironomid
subfossils preserved in varved lake Silvaplana, Engadine, Switzerland.
The sources of these data are living trees, dead dry wood and
subfossil logs that were recovered
from small lakes.