The earliest known member of the rorqual—gray whale clade (Mammalia, Cetacea)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 453-463

  Dooley, Alton C ^a   Fraser, Nicholas C ^a   Luo, Zhe Xi ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; CLADISTICS; MIOCENE; WHALE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BALAENIDAE; BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3142772009     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/2401     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Andrews, G. W. 1985. Unpublished report on diatoms of the Carmel Church Quarry. United States Geological Survey E&R Report, 1p
2. Andrews, G. W. 1988. A revised marine diatom zonation for Miocene strata of the southeastern United States. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1481:1-29
3. Arnason, U., and A. Gullberg. 1994. Relationship of baleen whales established by cytochrome b gene sequence comparison. Nature 367:726-728
4. Barnes, L. G., and S. A. McLeod. 1984. The fossil record and phyletic relationships of gray whales; pp. 3-32 in M. L. Jones, S. Swartz, and S. Leatherwood (eds.), The Gray Whale. Academic Press, New York
5. Brisson, M. J. 1762. Leregnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp
6. Cassens, I., S. Vicario, V. G. Waddell, H. Balchowsky, D. Van Belle, W. Ding, C. Fan, R. S. Lai Mohan, P. C. Simôes-Lopes, R. Bastida, A. Meyer, M. J. Stanhope, and M. C. Milinkovitch. 2000. Independent adaptation to riverine habitats allowed survival of ancient cetacean lineages. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 97:11343-11347
7. Dooley A. C., Jr. 1993. The vertebrate fauna of the Calvert Formation (middle Miocene) at the Caroline Stone Quarry, Caroline County, Virginia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, Supplement):33A
8. Fordyce, R. E. 1980. Whale evolution and Oligocene southern ocean environments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 31:319-336
9. Fordyce, R. E. 1992. Cetacean evolution and Eocene/Oligocene environments; pp. 368-381 in D. Prothero and W. Berggren (eds.), Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton
10. Fordyce, R. E. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, New Family), an archaic late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand; pp. 147-176 in A. Berta and T. Démère, (eds.), Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 29
11. Fordyce, R. E., and L. G. Barnes. 1994. The evolutionary history of whales and dolphins. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 22:419-455
12. Fraser, N. C., and A. C. Dooley Jr. 2000. A diverse marine vertebrate assemblage from a locality in the Calvert Formation of Virginia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3, upplement):42A
13. Gatesy, J. 1998. Molecular evidence for the phylogenetic affinities of Cetacea; pp. 63-111 in J. G. M. Thewissen (ed.), Emergence of Whales. Plenum Press, New York
14. Geisler, J. H., and Z.-X. Luo. 1996. The petrosal and inner ear of Her-petocetus sp. (Mammalia: Cetacea) and their implications for the phylogeny and hearing of archaic mysticetes. Journal of Paleontology 70:1045-1066
15. Gottfried, M. D., D. J. Bohaska, and F. C. Whitmore Jr. 1994. Miocene cetaceans of the Chesapeake Group; pp. 229-238 in A. Berta and T. Démère (eds.), Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology1 Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 29
16. Gray, J. E. 1864. On the Cetacea which have been observed in the seas surrounding the British Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864:195-248
17. Kellogg, A. R. 1922. Description of the skull of Megaptera miocaena, a fossil humpback whale from the Miocene diatomaceous earth of Lompoc, California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6:1-18
18. Kellogg, A. R. 1936. A review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 482:1-366
19. Kellogg, A. R. 1965. A new whalebone whale from the Miocene Calvert Formation. United States National Museum Bulletin 247:1-45
20. Kellogg, A. R. 1968a. A hitherto unrecognized Calvert cetothere. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 247:133-161
21. Kellogg, A. R. 1968b. Supplement to description of Parietobalaena palmeri. United States National Museum Bulletin 247:175-197
22. Kellogg, A. R. 1969. Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank Formation of Maryland and Virginia. United States National Museum Bulletin 294:1-40
23. Kimura, T., and T. Ozawa. 2002. A new cetothere (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the early Miocene of Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22:684-702
24. Lacépède, B. G. 1804. Histoire Naturelle des Cétacés, Paris, 412 pp
25. Li, W.-H. 1997. Molecular Evolution. Sinaur Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, 432 pp
26. Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per régna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp
27. Luo, Z.-X., and E. R. Eastman. 1995. The petrosal and inner ear structures of a squalodontoid whale: their implications on hearing evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:431-422
28. Luo, Z.-X., and K. Marsh. 1996. The petrosal and inner ear structure of a fossil kogiine whale (Odontoceti, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:328-348
29. Marr, J. D., and L. W. Ward. 1993. Geology of the Caroline Stone Quarry. Virginia Explorer 9:7-10
30. McLeod, S. A., F. C. Whitmore Jr., and L. G. Barnes. 1993. Evolutionary relationships and classification; pp. 45-70 in J. J. Burns, J. J. Montague, and C. J. Cowles (eds.), The Bowhead Whale. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication 2
31. Messenger, S. L., and J. A. McGuire. 1998. Morphology, molecules, and the phylogenetics of cetaceans. Systematic Biology 40:90-124
32. Milinkovitch, M. C., A. Meyer, and G. Orti. 1994. Phylogeny of all major groups of cetaceans based on DNA sequences from three mitochondrial genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11:939-948
33. Milinkovitch, M. C., G. Orti, and A. Meyer. 1993. Revised phylogeny of whales suggested by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequence. Nature 361:346-348
34. Nikaido, M., F. Matsuno, H. Hamilton, R. L. Brownell Jr., Y. Cao, W. Ding, Z. Zuoyan, A. M. Shedlock, R. E. Fordyce, M. Hasegawa, and N. Okada. 2001. Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages: the monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 98: 7384-7389
35. Oishi, M., and Y. Hasegawa. 1994. Diversity of Pliocene mysticetes from eastern Japan. The Island Arc 3:436-452
36. Repenning, C. A., and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93
37. Swofford, D. 1998. PAUP 4.0bl0 (Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony and Other Methods). Computer program distributed by Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts
38. Tomilin, A. G. 1957. [Mammals of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Vol. IX. Cetacea]. Zveri S.S.S.R. i prilezhashchikh strain. IX. Kitoobraznye. Izadatel’stvo Akademii Nauk S.S.S.R., Moskva. 756 pp. [Russian]
39. Ward, L. W. 1984. Stratigraphy of outcropping Tertiary beds along the Pamunkey River—central Virginia Coastal Plain; pp. 11-78 in L. W. Ward and K. Krafft (eds.), Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Outcropping Tertiary Beds in the Pamunkey River Region, Central Virginia Coastal Plain—Guidebook for Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 1984 Field Trip. Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association
40. Ward, L. W. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 2:1-159
41. Whitmore E C., Jr. 1994. Neogene climate change and the emergence of the modern whale fauna of the North Atlantic Ocean; pp. 223-228 in A. Berta and T. Démère (eds.), Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29
42. Zeigler, C. V., G. L. Chan, and L. G. Barnes. 1997. A new late Miocene balaenopterid whale (Cetacea: Mysticeti), Parabalaenoptera baulinensis, (new genus and species) from the Santa Cruz Mudstone, Point Reyes Peninsula, California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 50:115-138