Fossil whale excavation site MPC 677

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Fossil whale excavation site MPC 677

MPC 677 is a fossil whale documented at Cerro Ballena in northern Chile. The late-Miocene deposits, roughly 7–9 million years old, preserve multiple concentrations of marine vertebrates. This scan includes excavation ground and tools.

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Collection: Biology
Section: Animals
Model: 150,000 triangles · 0.6 MB

Model coverage and boundaries

1 web meshes; 150,000 triangles; 3 embedded image textures. Source chunks/materials are not assumed to be physical components. No exploded view is offered.

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1 web meshes; 150,000 triangles; 3 embedded image textures. Source chunks/materials are not assumed to be physical components. No exploded view is offered.

Changes: Geometry and materials reserialized; Draco re-encoding may discard degenerate faces. Embedded textures reduced to at most 512 pixels per dimension. Original files retained privately.

Credit: Smithsonian Digitization Program Office and National Museum of Natural History; fossil MPC 677, Museo Paleontologico de Caldera, Chile. Smithsonian 3D Digitization. Exact model and embedded texture package: CC0 1.0, verified on the item’s 3D-media usage control. Credit retained as provenance; no share-alike requirement.

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Retrieved 16 October 2026. Original SHA-256: 4964634594685a578caa28552062fa1843edd970078cf6aff2c19334673ddc8a. Original and audit evidence retained privately. Full rights entry.