- Pelagiceti. The
centra of the
lumbar vertebrae are
greatly elongated like in
basilosaurines and
pachycetines but do not
quite reach the
proportions of the most...
-
Dorudon juveniles.
Although they look very much like
modern whales,
basilosaurines and
dorudontines lacked the
melon organ that
would allow their descendants...
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Eocene Basilosaurines and Dorudontines". The
Emergence of Whales. pp. 29–61. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0159-0_2...
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those of
basilosaurines, they
differ in how much
denser they are,
which is
achieved through the
internal architecture of the bone. In
basilosaurines, the...
- of the thorax, are
highly elongated, a
trait shared by
basilosaurines.
Unlike basilosaurines however, the
transverse processes that
emerge from the sides...
- Uhen
agrees that
elongated vertebrae are a
distinguishing feature of
basilosaurines within the
family Basilosauridae, he also
points out that
other groups...
-
Retrieved 1 July 2013. Uhen, Mark D. (1998). "Middle to late
Eocene basilosaurines and dorudontines". In Thewissen, J. G. M. (ed.). The
emergence of whales...
- that
clearly distinguishes Chrysocetus and
other dorudontines from
basilosaurines,
which have
highly elongated lumbar vertebrae. The
transverse processes...
