A bizarre new toothed mysticete (Cetacea) from Australia and the early evolution of baleen whales

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1604, 2006, Pages 2955-2963

  Fitzgerald, Erich M G ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cetacea; Evolution; Mysticeti; Oligocene

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; OLIGOCENE; WHALE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CETACEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EYE; FEEDING; FELIDAE; FILTER FEEDER; HAPLOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; WHALE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; HYDRURGA LEPTONYX; MAMMALIA; MYSTICETI; REPTILIA;

EID: 34247244244     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3664     Document Type: Article

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