- It
contains one species,
Ambulocetus natans (Latin
natans "swimming"),
known solely from a near-complete skeleton.
Ambulocetus is
among the best-studied...
-
Ambulocetidae is a
family of
early cetaceans from ****stan. The
genus Ambulocetus,
after which the
family is named, is by far the most
complete and well-known...
- its family. Of the less than 10
fossils that have been described, one,
Ambulocetus natans, is
nearly complete and the main
source of
information concerning...
-
transition of
whales from land to water,
including the
discovery of
Ambulocetus, ****cetus, Indohyus, and Kutchicetus. In
addition to his work on fossil...
- mammals. This
arrangement does not give
directional hearing under water.
Ambulocetus natans,
which lived about 49 million
years ago, was
discovered in ****stan...
-
shorter femur (60–70%)
distinguish Rodhocetus from the more
primitive Ambulocetus. The
convex posterior surface of the exoccipital,
shorter cervical vertebrae...
-
channeled vibrations from the jaw to the
earbone which occurred with
Ambulocetus 49
million years ago, a
streamlining of the body and the
growth of flukes...
-
hearing set-up that
channeled vibrations from the jaw to the
earbone (
Ambulocetus 49 mya), a
streamlined body and the
growth of
flukes on the tail (Protocetus...
- from the extinction, and
mammalian diversity increased.
Creatures like
Ambulocetus took to the
oceans to
eventually evolve into whales,
whereas some creatures...
-
expedition in late 2006
failed to find any in the
Yangtze River. (Eocene)
Ambulocetus Himalayacetus Gandakasia (Late Eocene)
Tutcetus Perucetus Basilosaurinae...
