- is the
earliest mysticete,
dating back to 37 to 33
million years ago (mya) in the Late Eocene, and, like
other early toothed mysticetes, or "archaeomysticetes"...
- tip of the tooth, does
enamel show.
Mysticetes have
large whalebone, as
opposed to teeth, made of keratin.
Mysticetes have two blowholes,
whereas Odontocetes...
-
mysticetes.
Using parsimony to
study this and
other ancestral characters suggests that the
common ancestor of
aetiocetids and
edentulous mysticetes evolved...
-
Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.
Although at
times classified as
basal mysticetes or
basal odontocetes,
recent cladistic analyses demonstrate that kekenodontids...
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- Additionally, size is a
positively selected trait that
gives mysticetes a
boost in fitness.
Mysticete po****tions will
therefore slowly become even more gigantic...
- from
teeth to
baleen in
Oligocene mysticetes.
Baleen is a
highly derived character, or synapomorphy, of
mysticetes, and is a
keratinous structure that...
- whales) have m****ive
heads that can make up 40% of
their body m****. Most
mysticetes prefer the food-rich
colder waters of the
Northern and
Southern Hemispheres...
-
synonym of Mammalodontidae.
Analysing the jaw
morphology of the
toothed mysticetes,
Fitzgerald 2012
found eight mandibular characters unique to the members...
-
Eomysticetidae is a
family of
extinct mysticetes belonging to
Chaeomysticeti (toothless
mysticetes). It is one of two
families in the
basal chaeomysticete...
