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Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution

Living baleen whales, or Mysticeti, lack teeth and instead feed using keratinous baleen plates to sieve prey-laden water. This feeding strategy is profoundly different from that of their toothed ancestors, which processed prey using the differentiated dentition characteristic of mammals. The fossil...

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Vydáno v:R Soc Open Sci
Hlavní autoři: Peredo, Carlos Mauricio, Pyenson, Nicholas D.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936946/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765681
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172336
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