- It
contains one species,
Ambulocetus natans (Latin
natans "swimming"),
known solely from a near-complete skeleton.
Ambulocetus is
among the best-studied...
-
Ambulocetidae is a
family of
early cetaceans from ****stan. The
genus Ambulocetus,
after which the
family is named, is by far the most
complete and well-known...
- its family. Of the less than 10
fossils that have been described, one,
Ambulocetus natans, is
nearly complete and the main
source of
information concerning...
- mammals. This
arrangement does not give
directional hearing under water.
Ambulocetus natans,
which lived about 49 million
years ago, was
discovered in ****stan...
-
transition of
whales from land to water,
including the
discovery of
Ambulocetus, ****cetus, Indohyus, and Kutchicetus. In
addition to his work on fossil...
- to
freshwater environments, as
modern hippopotamuses are. The
later Ambulocetus, was
likely to have
lived a much more
aquatic lifestyle, with shorter...
-
channeled vibrations from the jaw to the
earbone which occurred with
Ambulocetus 49
million years ago, a
streamlining of the body and the
growth of flukes...
- from the extinction, and
mammalian diversity increased.
Creatures like
Ambulocetus took to the
oceans to
eventually evolve into whales,
whereas some creatures...
-
probably swam
using undulatory movements like
modern otters and most
likely Ambulocetus. This mode of
locomotion represents a
transitional stage in
whale evolution...
- Museum. 34: 220–38. Thewissen, J.G.M.; Madar, S.I.; Hussain, S.T. (1996).
Ambulocetus natans, an
Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from ****stan.
Courier Forschungsinstitut...
