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Dolphin-like kentriodontids species might have gone extinct because of global cooling 14 million years ago

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An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography

image: Posterior view of the skull of Platysvercus ugonis gen. et sp. nov., holotype, UTHFM 00034. (A) photo. (B) corresponding line drawing with anatomical interpretations (scale bar equals 100 mm). view more 

Credit: Guo, Kohno, 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280218

Article Title: An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography

Author Countries: Japan

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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