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

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] Mystacodon selenensis • Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales ---ScRaBBlE

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Mystacodon selenensis  Lambert, Martínez-Cáceres, Bianucci, Celma, Salas-Gismondi, Steurbaut, Urbina & Muizon, 2017   DOI:   10.1016/j.c...

[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] 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] 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...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2018] Maiabalaena nesbittae • Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales ---ScRaBBlE

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Maiabalaena nesbittae   Peredo, Pyenson, Marshall & Uhen, 2018     DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.047   Illustration:  Alex Boersma ( AlexB...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2018] Toipahautea waitaki • A New Archaic Baleen Whale (early-Late Oligocene, New Zealand) and the Origins of Crown Mysticeti ---ScRaBBlE

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Toipahautea waitaki    Tsai & Fordyce, 2018 Burial in the ancient sea of Zealandia: a  Toipahautea  whale skeleton is slowly covered by ...