- is the
earliest mysticete,
dating back to 37 to 33
million years ago (mya) in the Late Eocene, and, like
other early toothed mysticetes, or "archaeomysticetes"...
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Eomysticetidae is a
family of
extinct mysticetes belonging to
Chaeomysticeti (toothless
mysticetes). It is one of two
families in the
basal chaeomysticete...
- tip of the tooth, does
enamel show.
Mysticetes have
large whalebone, as
opposed to teeth, made of keratin.
Mysticetes have two blowholes,
whereas Odontocetes...
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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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synonym of Mammalodontidae.
Analysing the jaw
morphology of the
toothed mysticetes,
Fitzgerald 2012
found eight mandibular characters unique to the members...
- from
teeth to
baleen in
Oligocene mysticetes.
Baleen is a
highly derived character, or synapomorphy, of
mysticetes, and is a
keratinous structure that...
- 1056. PMC 1692962. PMID 12028787.
Bannister JL (2008). "Baleen
Whales (
Mysticetes)". In
Perrin WF, Würsig B,
Thewissen JG (eds.).
Encyclopedia of Marine...
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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...
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Mediterranean cetaceans constitute a
unique ****emblage of
species found in the
virtually closed basin of the
Mediterranean Sea. This ****emblage differs...
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Mysticetes reported from the San
Diego Formation Genus Species Stratigraphic position Notes Images Balaenoptera B.
davidsonii An
extinct rorqual belonging...
