The early evolution of toothless baleen whales (Chaeomysticeti) remains elusive, despite a robust record of Eocene–Oligocene archaeocetes and toothed mysticetes. Eomysticetids, a …
CH Tsai, RE Fordyce - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2015 - Springer
Horopeta umarere is a new genus and species of extinct baleen whales from the Kokoamu Greensand (early Chattian, Oligocene, in the range 25–27 Ma), Hakataramea Valley, New …
RE Fordyce, FG Marx - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic of the living baleen whales (Mysticeti). Its highly disparate morphology and the virtual absence of a described …
TA Demere, A Berta - Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Toothed mysticetes of the family Aetiocetidae from Oligocene rocks of the North Pacific play a key role in interpretations of cetacean evolution because they are transitional in grade …
Eomysticetids represent a worldwide, short-lived radiation of archaic baleen-bearing mysticetes that elucidate morphofunctional shifts and ontogenetic change amongst early …
CH Tsai, RE Fordyce - Royal Society Open Science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A new genus and species of extinct baleen whale† Toipahautea waitaki (Late Oligocene, New Zealand) is based on a skull and associated bones, from the lower Kokoamu …
JE Corrie, RE Fordyce - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stem cetaceans (archaeocetes) have a substantial Eocene fossil record but are largely absent since the Eocene–Oligocene boundary. Putative Oligocene archaeocetes are mostly …
Govender, R., Bisconti, M. & Chinsamy, A., June 2016. A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia …
EMG Fitzgerald - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the recent deluge of research into the evolution of baleen whales (Mysticeti)(Sasaki et al., 2005; Steeman, 2007; Deméré et al., 2008; Kimura and Hasegawa, 2010; Churchill et …