New Skeletons of the Ancient Dolphin <i>Xenorophus sloanii</i> and <i>Xenorophus simplicidens</i> sp. nov. (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of South Carolina and the Ontogeny, Functional Anatomy, Asymmetry, Pathology, and Evolution of the Earliest Odontoceti
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 odontocete synapomorphies: the craniofacial and cochlear morphology underlying echolocation and retrograde cranial tel...
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MDPI AG
2023-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/11/1154 |