- for the rest of the
protocetids based on
their degree of
aquatic adaptation: Protocetinae-
Protocetines are
Lutetian protocetids with
generalized skulls...
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variety of
teeth suggests diverse feeding modes in
protocetids. In both
remingtonocetids and
protocetids, the size of the
mandibular foramen had increased...
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partial dentary with an
unfused mandibular symphysis, a
characteristic of
protocetids.
Large parts of the
axial skeleton including cervical,
thoracic and proximal...
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metres (8.2 ft) long, but was
probably primitive in some respects. Many
protocetids (like Maiacetus, Rodhocetus)
possessed well
developed innominates and...
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represents the world's
richest Bartonian archaic whale ****emblage,
including protocetids and basilosaurids.
Includes the
earliest occurrence of the
genus Pelagornis...
- M.S.M. &
Zalmout I.S. (2019). "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late
Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the
transition to...
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dolphin Spotted dolphin Tucuxi Vaquita Wholphin Uhen, M.D. (2008). "New
protocetid whales from
Alabama and Mississippi, and a new
Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti"...
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characteristic of the weight-bearing
system of land-living
mammals retained in
protocetids, such as
Rodhocetus and Qaisracetus, but
absent in the more
derived basilosaurids...
- ****cetids,
which gave rise to ambulocetids,
which gave rise to both
protocetids and remingtonocetids.: 69–71
Though middle-to-late-Eocene archaeocetes...
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Pacific Ocean and the
Southern Hemisphere. The
discovery reveals that
protocetids reached the
Pacific Ocean and
attained a near cir****equatorial distribution...
