New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti

2008/09/12 by Mark D. Uhen · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Marine animal studies overview #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Clade #Biology #Fishery #Geography #Zoology #Oceanography #Geology #Phylogenetics

paper · doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[589:npwfaa]2.0.co;2

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Abstract

(2008). New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 589-593.

Citations

• The Emergence of Whales
• Middle to Late Eocene Basilosaurines and Dorudontines
• NEW GENUS OF DORUDONTINE ARCHAEOCETE (CETACEA) FROM THE MIDDLE‐TO‐LATE EOCENE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
• Locomotor evolution in the earliest cetaceans: functional model, modern analogues, and paleontological evidence
• A New Protocetid Whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the Late Middle Eocene of South Carolina

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