- 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"...
- 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...
- to the
unusual skeletal form of the
species relative to
other extant mysticetes.
Until the
early 2010s
Neobalaenidae was
unknown from the
fossil record...
-
clocks have put this
divergence for
balaenopteroids from
other crown mysticetes by 15–20
million years. In
their review of
extant and
fossil rorquals...
-
Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.
Although at
times classified as
basal mysticetes or
basal odontocetes,
recent cladistic analyses demonstrate that kekenodontids...
- from
teeth to
baleen in
Oligocene mysticetes.
Baleen is a
highly derived character, or synapomorphy, of
mysticetes, and is a
keratinous structure that...
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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...
-
other cetacean. Like
other mysticetes, the
pygmy right whale has a
large laryngeal sac, but in
contrast to
other mysticetes, this sac is
positioned on...
- Additionally, size is a
positively selected trait that
gives mysticetes a
boost in fitness.
Mysticete po****tions will
therefore slowly become even more gigantic...
