A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation

Jonathan H. Geisler (), Matthew W. Colbert and James L. Carew
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Jonathan H. Geisler: New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Northern Boulevard, Old Westbury, New York 11568, USA
Matthew W. Colbert: Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin
James L. Carew: Natural History Museum, College of Charleston

Nature, 2014, vol. 508, issue 7496, 383-386

Abstract: Phylogenetic analysis of a new species of fossil toothed whale, Cotylocara macei, from the Oligocene epoch places it in a basal clade of odontocetes, and its features suggest that rudimentary echolocation evolved in the early Oligocene and was followed by convergent evolution in their skulls.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature13086

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