Anatomical, ontogenetic, and genomic homologies guide reconstructions of the teeth-to-baleen transition in mysticete whales

J Gatesy, EG Ekdale, TA Deméré, A Lanzetti… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The transition in Mysticeti (Cetacea) from capture of individual prey using teeth to
bulk filtering batches of small prey using baleen ranks among the most dramatic …

In search of the origin of crown Mysticeti

CH Tsai - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research on mysticete fossils from the Late Eocene and Oligocene has
revolutionised our understanding of the diversity and evolutionary scenarios for early baleen …

[HTML][HTML] New specimens and species of the Oligocene toothed baleen whale Coronodon from South Carolina and the origin of Neoceti

RW Boessenecker, BL Beatty, JH Geisler - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are gigantic filter-feeding cetaceans possessing the unique soft
tissue structure baleen and lacking adult teeth; Oligocene fossils have revealed a wealth of …

Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales

EG Ekdale, TA Deméré - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) have a deciduous foetal dentition, but are edentulous at
birth. Fossils reveal that the earliest mysticetes possessed an adult dentition. Aetiocetids, a …

Mystacodon selenensis, the earliest known toothed mysticete (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru: anatomy, phylogeny, and feeding adaptations

C De Muizon, G Bianucci, M Martínez-Cáceres… - Geodiversitas, 2019 - BioOne
ABSTRACT Mystacodon selenensis Lambert, Martínez-Cáceres, Bianucci, Di Celma, Salas-
Gismondi, Steurbaut, Urbina & Muizon, 2017 is a toothed mysticete that represents the …

Strontium isotopes reveal a globally unique assemblage of Early Miocene baleen whales

FG Marx, A Coste, MD Richards, JM Palin… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The earliest Miocene (Aquitanian, 23–20 Ma) remains a critically under-
sampled 'dark age'in cetacean evolution. This is especially true of baleen whales …

A redescription and re-evaluation of Kekenodon onamata (Mammalia: Cetacea), a late-surviving archaeocete from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand

JE Corrie, RE Fordyce - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stem cetaceans (archaeocetes) have a substantial Eocene fossil record but are largely
absent since the Eocene–Oligocene boundary. Putative Oligocene archaeocetes are mostly …

Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”

FG Marx, EMG Fitzgerald, RE Fordyce - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2019 - agro.icm.edu.pl
The evolution of baleen whales (Mysticeti), the largest animals on Earth, was punctuated by
a pivotal turnover event. Following their emergence around 36 million years (Ma), mysticetes …

From teeth to baleen and raptorial to bulk filter feeding in mysticete cetaceans: the role of paleontological, genetic, and geochemical data in feeding evolution and …

A Berta, A Lanzetti, EG Ekdale… - Integrative and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The origin of baleen and filter feeding in mysticete cetaceans occurred sometime between
approximately 34 and 24 million years ago and represents a major macroevolutionary shift …

Decoupling tooth loss from the evolution of baleen in whales

CM Peredo, ND Pyenson, AT Boersma - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Baleen whales, or mysticetes, include the largest vertebrates to have ever evolved. Their
gigantism, evolutionary success, and ecological diversity have been linked to filter feeding …