Data from: A new basal chaeomysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the late Oligocene Pysht Formation of Washington, USA

• Main Authors: Peredo, Carlos Mauricio, Uhen, Mark D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad Digital Repository 2016
• Subjects: Sitsqwayk cornishorum; Chaeomysticeti; Neoceti; Baleen; Mysticeti; Cetacea; Late Oligocene; Pysht Formation; Chattian; Olympic Penninsula; Washington; Life sciences; medicine and health care; archeo; geo; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Pacific Point
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3sm6t

Modern baleen-bearing mysticetes are descendant from archaic, toothed mysticetes known from the Late Eocene and Oligocene of the Pacific Ocean. These toothed mysticetes, such as aetiocetids and mammalodontids, dominate the Oligocene fossil record. However, larger bodied eomysticetids have recently b...