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Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming in whales

Aegicetus gehennae is a new African protocetid whale based on a partial skull with much of an associated postcranial skeleton. The type specimen, Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo [CGM] 60584, was found near the base of the early-Priabonian-age (earliest late Eocene) Gehannam Formation of the Wadi A...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Gingerich, Philip D., Antar, Mohammed Sameh M., Zalmout, Iyad S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905522/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31825956
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225391
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