Recent research on mysticete fossils from the Late Eocene and Oligocene has
revolutionised our understanding of the diversity and evolutionary scenarios for early baleen …

Eomysticetidae are a clade of early diverging functionally toothless, longirostrine and likely
baleen-bearing stem mysticete whales. Eomysticetid fossils are rare but known worldwide …

ABSTRACT The earliest Miocene (Aquitanian, 23–20 Ma) remains a critically under-
sampled 'dark age'in cetacean evolution. This is especially true of baleen whales …

Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) uniquely use keratinous baleen for filter-feeding and lack
dentition, but the fossil record clearly shows that" toothed" baleen whales first appeared in …

Marine amniotes have played many crucial roles in ocean ecosystems since the Triassic,
including predation at the highest trophic levels. One genus often placed into this guild is the …

The Kekenodontidae are late-surviving archaeocetes from the Late Oligocene of Southwest
Pacific that includes a single-named species, Kekenodon onamata. Tohoraonepu …

Among the several evolutionary lineages of the baleen whales (Mysticeti), the eomysticetids
are an ancient successful family that retain possibly nonfunctional teeth and functional …

The early diverging, dolphin-sized, cetacean clade Xenorophidae are a short-lived radiation
of toothed whales (Odontoceti) that independently evolved two features long thought to be …

Despite two centuries of fossils collecting, no cetacean remains from the Oligocene marine
deposits of the Mainz Basin (western Germany) have ever been reported. Here, we describe …

Here we present two new Miocene basal balaenomorph mysticetes recognized by periotic
bones with a unique combination of characters. The fossil periotics originated from former …