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Fossil jaw tells tale of whale evolution

Paleontologists claim to have found the oldest and most primitive whale fossil.

 

References:

Bajpai, S., and P.D. Gingerich. 1998. New early Eocene archaeocete from India: Implications for the environment and time of origin of whales. Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. September. Snowbird, Utah.

 

Sources:

Sunil Bajpai
University of Roorkee
Department of Earth Sciences
Roorkee, U.P. 246667
India

Philip D. Gingerich
University of Michigan
Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079

Hans Thewissen
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
4209 State Route 44
P.O. Box 95
Rootstown, OH 44272

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 15, October 10, 1998, p. 229.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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