Archaeoceti


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Archaeoceti

[‚ärk·ē·ə′sē‚tī]
(paleontology)
The zeuglodonts, a suborder of aquatic Eocene mammals in the order Cetacea; the oldest known cetaceans.
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It's located in the Western Desert of Egypt, 150 km south-southwest of Cairo and 90 km west of Fayoum City, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. The totally dry Wadi El-Hitan is a distinct area within the WRPA, and lies c.40 km west of the lakes among an attractive and distinctive desert landscape of wind-eroded pillars of rock, surrounded by sand dunes, hills, cliffs and escarpment-bounded plateaux.
Wadi Hitan: Clues to whale evolution
New remains of Archaeoceti from Paleogene of Antarctica.
Diversidad de vertebrados marino costeros de la Provincia Weddelliana en un horizonte basal (Ypresiano, Eoceno) del Alomiembro Cucullaea I, Formacion La Meseta, isla Seymour (Marambio), Antartida
In fact, it is the first discovery of a fetal skeleton of an extinct whale in the group known as Archaeoceti, and the find represents a new species dubbed Maiacetus inuus.
Ancient whales walked the Earth millions of years ago
Both sides in the controversy would thus be vindicated: Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, and their more fully marine descendants in the extinct whale suborder Archaeoceti would in fact be descended from mesonychians, while the two extant whale suborders would share a common ancestor (probably more recently) with hippopotamoid artiodactyls.
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