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Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales

Living sperm whales are represented by only three species (Physeter macrocephalus, Kogia breviceps and Kogia sima), but their fossil record provides evidence of an ecologically diverse array of different forms, including morphologies and body sizes without analog among living physeteroids. Here we p...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Boersma, Alexandra T., Pyenson, Nicholas D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674121/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26651027
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135551
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