| Summary: | Figure 33. Comparison of skeletal reconstructions, crania, and tympanic bullae of the protocetid Georgiacetus vogtlensis, the basilosaurid Dorudon atrox, the aetiocetid Aetiocetus weltoni, Tokarahia kauaeroa, and extant Balaenoptera edeni. Sources for illustrations include Emlong (1966), Barnes et al. (1995), Hulbert et al. (1998), Uhen (2004), Deméré & Berta (2008), and photographs courtesy F.G. Marx and C.H. Tsai. Published as part of Boessenecker, Robert W. & Fordyce, R. Ewan, 2015, A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of 'Mauicetus' lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand, pp. 607-660 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 175 (3) on page 656, DOI:10.1111/zoj.12297, http://zenodo.org/record/5339858
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