Balaenopteroidea Baleen whale Cetacea Cetacean Evolution Fossil calibration Fossil record Monterey Formation Rorqual Tortonian

Journal

PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 22 01 2019
accepted: 06 08 2019
entrez: 15 10 2019
pubmed: 15 10 2019
medline: 15 10 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Rorqual whales are among the most species rich group of baleen whales (or mysticetes) alive today, yet the monophyly of the traditional grouping (i.e., Balaenopteridae) remains unclear. Additionally, many fossil mysticetes putatively assigned to either Balaenopteridae or Balaenopteroidea may actually belong to stem lineages, although many of these fossil taxa suffer from inadequate descriptions of fragmentary skeletal material. Here we provide a redescription of the holotype of

Identifiants

pubmed: 31608165
doi: 10.7717/peerj.7629
pii: 7629
pmc: PMC6788442
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e7629

Informations de copyright

©2019 Leslie et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Nicholas D. Pyenson is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

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Auteurs

Matthew S Leslie (MS)

Biology Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, United States of America.
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.

Carlos Mauricio Peredo (CM)

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America.

Nicholas D Pyenson (ND)

Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Department of Paleontology and Geology, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA, United States of America.

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