- second-oldest
mysticete,
yielded a
total length of 8
meters (26 ft),
indicating filter feeding was not a
driving feature in
mysticete evolution. The...
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thought to have had
their last
common ancestor around 34
million years ago.
Mysticetes include four
extant (living) families:
Balaenopteridae (the rorquals)...
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mysticetes.
Using parsimony to
study this and
other ancestral characters suggests that the
common ancestor of
aetiocetids and
edentulous mysticetes evolved...
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Aetiocetus is a
genus of
extinct basal mysticete, or
baleen whale that
lived 33.9 to 23.03
million years ago, in the
Oligocene in the
North Pacific ocean...
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occurred once, and both
occurred on the
mysticete stem branch.
Generally it is
speculated the four
modern mysticete families have
separate origins among...
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signature whistles that
bottlenose dolphins use as
individual labels.
Mysticetes do not have
phonic lip structure. Instead, they have a
larynx that appears...
- 1056. PMC 1692962. PMID 12028787.
Bannister JL (2008). "Baleen
Whales (
Mysticetes)". In
Perrin WF, Würsig B,
Thewissen JG (eds.).
Encyclopedia of Marine...
- whales) have m****ive
heads that can make up 40% of
their body m****. Most
mysticetes prefer the food-rich
colder waters of the
Northern and
Southern Hemispheres...
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Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.
Although at
times classified as
basal mysticetes or
basal odontocetes,
recent cladistic analyses demonstrate that kekenodontids...
- PMID 30804188. Geijer, C. K.;
Notarbartolo di Sciara, G.; Panigada, S. (2016). "
Mysticete migration revisited: Are
Mediterranean fin
whales an anomaly?". Mammal...
