Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)

• Published in: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Viglino, Mariana, Buono, Mónica Romina, Tanaka, Yoshihiro, Cuitiño, José Ignacio, Fordyce, Robert Ewan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: EVOLUTION; GAIMAN FORMATION; ODONTOCETI; PALAEOBIOLOGY; PLATANISTOIDEA; TIME-CALIBRATED PHYLOGENETIC HYPOTHESIS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentina; Moreno; toothed whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/203642

Platanistoidea remains one of the most evolutionarily intriguing lineages of toothed whales (Odontoceti). The clade comprises mostly extinct species from the late Oligocene–early Miocene onward and a single extant riverine genus (Platanista). There is an ongoing debate as to the membership of Platan...