Mesonychids > Mysticetes illustrated
Short one today
revisiting the mesonychid-to-mysticete evolutionary series in graphic form (Fig 1).
Figure 1. Inspired by this great picture of a hippo in the grass, here are its phylogenetic ancestors (Mesonyx) and descendants (Desmostylus and Caperera) to scale. They don’t teach this yet at the university level.
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Whale workers
don’t want to add these taxa to their analyses, preferring cows and pigs from the artiodactyl clade and preferring to leave Desmostylus as an enigmatic marine mammal.
References
Peters D unpublished. The triple origin of whales. ReserchGate.net
The desmostylian ?Behemotops is basal to the Mysticeti (baleen whales)
SVP abstracts 18: Palatal foramina and the origin of baleen in mysticetes
References
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