The origin(s) of whales

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 189-219

  Uhen, Mark D ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Eocene; Fossil record; Mysticeti; Neoceti; Odontoceti; Oligocene; Paleontology

Indexed keywords

BALEEN WHALES; FOSSIL RECORDS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PAKISTAN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

MAMMALS;

ANATOMY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MYA; MYSTICETI; ODONTOCETI;

EID: 77953656936     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152453     Document Type: Article

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