Archaeocete-like jaws in a baleen whale

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-96

  Fitzgerald, Erich M G ^a,b  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Cetacea; Evolution; Mammalodontidae; Mysticeti; Oligocene

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; FILTER FEEDER; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PREY AVAILABILITY; SKULL; TOOTH; WHALE;

AUSTRALIA;

CETACEA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 84856244933     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0690     Document Type: Article

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