Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales

2018/11/29 by Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Christopher D. Marshall +1 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Baleen #Biology #Cetacea #Dentition #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Genetics #Marine animal studies overview #Paleontology #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Underwater Acoustics Research #Whale #Zoology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.047

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Citations

• New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers
• The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia
• A new Early Oligocene toothed ‘baleen’ whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest

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