Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru)

Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru)

Several aspects of the fascinating evolutionary history of toothed and baleen whales (Cetacea) are still to be clarified due to the fragmentation and discontinuity (in space and time) of the fossil record. Here we open a window on the past, describing a part of the extraordinary cetacean fossil asse...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Bianucci, Christian de Muizon, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Life
Subjects:
odontoceti
squalodelphinidae
platanistidae
early miocene
peru
phylogeny
paleoecology
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/3/27

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