Enamel Microstructure in Eocene Cetaceans from Antarctica (Archaeoceti and Mysticeti)

• Published in: Journal of Mammalian Evolution
• Main Authors: Loch, Carolina, Buono, Mónica Romina, Kalthoff, Daniela C., Mörs, Thomas, Fernández, Marta Susana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: ARCHAEOCETES; HUNTER-SCHREGER BANDS; LA MESETA FORMATION; MYSTICETES; TEETH; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Mónica; Antarc*; Antarctica; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/118163

Modern baleen whales have no adult teeth, whereas dolphins and porpoises have a homodont and polydont dentition, with simplified enamel microstructure. However, archaic cetaceans (archaeocetes and early mysticetes and odontocetes) had a complex and ornamented dentition, with complex enamel microstru...