Name - Protocetidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:785885 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Protocetidae Stromer 1908

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans.
• First record of the family Protocetidae in the Lutetian of Senegal (West Africa).
• Early evolution of the ossicular chain in Cetacea: into the middle ear gears of a semi-aquatic protocetid whale.
• From limb to fin: an Eocene protocetid forelimb from Senegal sheds new light on the early locomotor evolution of cetaceans.
• Marine mammals (Cetacea and Sirenia) from the middle and late Eocene of Jordan.

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