Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls

2001/09/01 by J. G. M. Thewissen, Ellen Williams, E. M. Williams +2 · 19 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Cetacea #Clade #Cladistics #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Marine animal studies overview #Monophyly #Phylogenetic tree #Sister group #Whale #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1038/35095005

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Citations

• Phylogenetic aspects of Cetacean origins: A morphological perspective
• New whale from the Eocene of Pakistan and the origin of cetacean swimming
• Locomotor evolution in the earliest cetaceans: functional model, modern analogues, and paleontological evidence

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