Showing posts with label Marine Mammal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marine Mammal. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Dilophodelphis fordycei • A New Fossil Dolphin Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Supraorbital Crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea) ---ScRaBBlE

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Dilophodelphis fordycei Boersma, McCurry & Pyenson, 2017    DOI:   10.1098/rsos.170022   Image: A. Boersma   @ Boersma_Alex   Abstract ...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Coronodon havensteini • The Origin of Filter Feeding in Whales ---ScRaBBlE

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Coronodon havensteini   Geisler, Boessenecker , Brown & Beatty, 2017 Illustration: A. Gennari  DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.003     Highl...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Urkudelphis chawpipacha • A New Tropical Oligocene Dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador ---ScRaBBlE

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Urkudelphis chawpipacha   Tanaka, Abella, Aguirre-Fernández, Gregori & Fordyce, 2017     DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0188380   Abstract A...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] The early Miocene Balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the Evolution of Right Whales ---ScRaBBlE

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  Morenocetus parvus  Cabrera, 1926   Art by Jorge Gonzalez. in  Buono​, Fernández, Cozzuol, et al . 2017  DOI:   10.7717/peerj.4148   Abstr...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Inermorostrum xenops • A Toothless Dwarf Dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) Points to Explosive Feeding Diversification of Modern Whales (Neoceti) ---ScRaBBlE

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Inermorostrum xenops Boessenecker, Fraser, Churchill & Geisler, 2017 @ CoastalPaleo   DOI:  10.1098/rspb.2017.0531   Abstract Toothed wh...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Decoupling Tooth Loss from the Evolution of Baleen in Whales ---ScRaBBlE

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Baleen whales, or mysticetes, include the largest vertebrates to have ever evolved. Their gigantism, evolutionary success, and ecological di...