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    Archaeoceti ("ancient whales"), or Zeuglodontes in older literature, is a paraphyletic group of primitive cetaceans that lived from the Early Eocene to...
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    Pakicetidae ("Pakistani whales") is an extinct family of Archaeoceti (early whales) that lived during the Early Eocene in Pakistan. Unlike modern cetaceans...
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    Wadi al Hitan (category Archaeoceti)
    its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct sub-order of whales). The site reveals evidence for the...
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    with an amphibious lifestyle. Ambulocetus is classified in the group Archaeoceti—the ancient forerunners of modern cetaceans whose members span the transition...
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  • (2019). "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming...
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    protowhale Pakicetus and other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti. This group eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely...
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    land.[citation needed] One of the oldest members of ancient cetaceans (Archaeoceti) is Pakicetus from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan. This is an animal the...
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    Pelycosaurs Therapsida Synapsida Even-toed ungulates Cetacea Cetartiodactyla Archaeoceti Neoceti Cetacea Prosimians Simiiformes Primates Crustaceans Hexapoda...
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    of Cetacea; semi-aquatic protowhales such as Pakicetus in the group Archaeoceti, which developed into the exclusively aquatic ancestors of modern cetaceans...
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    Basilosauridae, the five families are classified under the suborder Archaeoceti. Cetaceans portal Evolution of cetaceans Berta, Sumich & Kovacs 2006...
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    William J (1997). "Basilosaurus drazindai and Basiloterus hussaini, New Archaeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation, with a...
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    proto-whale Pakicetus and other early cetacean ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti, which eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely aquatic...
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    Remingtonocetoidea by Mitchell 1989 and Rice 1998; to Archaeoceti by Bianucci & Landini 2007; to Archaeoceti by Kumar & Sahni 1986, Fordyce & Barnes 1994, Fordyce...
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    (2003a). "Land-to-sea transition in early whales: evolution of Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea) in relation to skeletal proportions and locomotion of living...
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  • The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants...
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    Thewissen, J. G. M. (ed.), "Paleobiological Perspectives on Mesonychia, Archaeoceti, and the Origin of Whales", The Emergence of Whales: Evolutionary Patterns...
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    extinct cetaceans List of individual cetaceans Evolution of cetaceans Archaeoceti List of whale vocalizations List of marine mammal species Mammal classification...
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    million years ago. Their evolutionary link to archaic toothed cetaceans (Archaeoceti) remained unknown until the extinct Janjucetus hunderi was discovered...
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    ago, with this initial stage lasting approximately 4-15 million years. Archaeoceti is an extinct parvorder of Cetacea containing ancient whales. The traditional...
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    million years ago and became fully aquatic by 5–10 million years later. Archaeoceti is a parvorder comprising ancient whales. These ancient whales are the...
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    (two species) Infraorder Cetacea: whales (about 90 species) Parvorder †Archaeoceti Family †Pakicetidae Family †Ambulocetidae Family †Remingtonocetidae Family...
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    Naran Bulak Formation. The genus was once suggested to be related to the Archaeoceti, such as Pakicetus, due to numerous similarities between the skull and...
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    Canada: Firefly Books Ltd. Kellogg, Remington (1936). A review of the Archaeoceti (PDF). Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. OCLC 681376. Uhen...
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    William J (1997). "Basilosaurus drazindai and Basiloterus hussaini, New Archaeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation, with a...
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    Kekenodontidae (category Archaeoceti)
    Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Informal group: †Archaeoceti Family: †Kekenodontidae Mitchell, 1989 Genera Kekenodon Tohoraonepu...
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    Zalmot: "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming...
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    protowhale Pakicetus and other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti, which eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely aquatic...
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    Paläontologische Abhandlungen. Dames was also the first to describe an Archaeoceti fossil from Egypt in 1883. In 1894 he published Über Zeuglodonten aus...
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    Sanders, Albert E.; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2005). "A New Protocetid Whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the Late Middle Eocene of South Carolina" (PDF). American Museum...
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    Kekenodon (category Archaeoceti)
    the basilosaurid subfamily Dorudontinae in the classic monograph on Archaeoceti by Kellogg (1936). "Squalodon" gambierensis from Australia is a close...
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