Mammalodontidae
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mammalodontidae-245-5664592
title:
Mammalodontidae
text:
Mammalodontidae is a family of extinct whales known from the Oligocene of Australia and New Zealand. There are currently two genera in this family: Janjucetus and Mammalodon. After a new cladistic analysis by Fitzgerald (2010), Janjucetus was transferred into Mammalodontidae, thereby making Janjucetidae a junior synonym of Mammalodontidae. Analysing the jaw morphology of the toothed mysticetes, Fitzgerald 2012 found eight mandibular characters unique to the members of Mammalodontidae: the mandib
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct family of mammals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalodontidae
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date modified:
2023-03-27T14:06:05Z
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