Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

The Eocene history of cetacean evolution is now represented by the expansive fossil record of archaeocetes elucidating major morphofunctional shifts relating to the land to sea transition, but the change from archaeocetes to modern cetaceans is poorly established. New fossil material of the recently...

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Published in:PeerJ
Main Authors: Boessenecker, Robert W., Fordyce, R. Ewan
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570844/
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1129