Tursiops truncatus
Ancient DNA extracted from bone of a subfossil specimen of bottlenose dolphin dredged from the southern North Sea bea (Smiths Knoll). Radiocarbon dated age of the ancient sample is 7,745 -7,572 years before present after calibration. The specimen is curated at the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam (Netherlands). Sequence reads contain all metagenomic data, not just reads that map to the bottlenose dolphin or killer whale reference genomes.