Filling the palaeobiogeographic gap in mysticetes evolution: New records of baleen whales from the Neogene of the Atacama region, southeastern Pacific, Chile

• Main Authors: Gutstein, Carolina, Buono, Mónica Romina
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: The Palaeontological Association
• Subjects: NEOGENE; BAHIA INGLESA FORMATION; BALEEN WHALES; CHILE; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Mónica; Pacific; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/193972

Mysticetes are an iconic group of marine mammals that include the most gigantic microphagous vertebrates that have ever lived on Earth. The fossil record of baleen whales dates back to the early Oligocene, reaching a diversification and widespread distribution during the Miocene, being present along...