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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: emergence of whales
    sub title: evolutionary patterns in the origin of Cetacea
  name:
    name part: Thewissen, J. G. M.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 477 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Research in whale origins is now in an explosive phase, with a cascade of discoveries adding to our understanding of the evolutionary pattern and a suite of new techniques being applied to address new questions. The objective of this volume is to provide a snapshot of this explosion. The volume paints the scene with a broad brush. Taken together the chapters clearly indicate that cetacean origins is a field that is dynamic, multidisciplinary, and that the end of the explosive phase is not in sight.
  table of contents: Synopsis of the earliest cetaceans : Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae / Ellen M. Williams -- Middle to Late Eocene basilosaurines and dorudontines / Mark D. Uhen -- Molecular evidence for the phylogenetic affinities of Cetacea / John Gatesy -- Cetaceans are highly derived artiodactyls / Michel C. Milinkovitch, Martine Bérubé, and Per J. Palsbøll -- Phylogenetic and morphometric reassessment of the dental evidence for a mesonychian and cetacean clade / Maureen A. O'Leary -- Relationships of Cetacea to terrestrial ungulates and the evolution of cranial vasculature in Cete / Jonathan H. Geisler and Zhexi Luo -- Middle Eocene cetaceans from the Harudi and Subathu Formations of India / Sunil Bajpai and J.G.M. Thewissen -- Postcranial osteology of the North American Middle Eocene protocetid Georgiacetus / Richard C. Hulbert, Jr. -- Homology and transformation of cetacean ectotympanic structures / Zhexi Luo -- Biomechanical perspective on the origin of cetacean flukes / Frank E. Fish -- Implications of vertebral morphology for locomotor evolution in early Cetacea / Emily A. Buchholtz -- Structural adaptations of early archaeocete long bones / Sandra I. Madar -- Evolution of thermoregulatory function in cetacean reproductive systems / D. Ann Pabst, Sentiel A. Rommel, and William A. McLellan -- Isotopic approaches to understanding the terrestrial-to-marine transition of the earliest cetaceans / Lois J. Roe ... [et al.] -- Paleobiological perspectives on Mesonychia, Archaeoceti, and the origin of whales / Philip D. Gingerich -- Cetacean origins : evolutionary turmoil during the invasion of the oceans / J.G.M. Thewissen.
  note: edited by J.G.M. Thewissen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cetacea
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Cetacea, Fossil
  subject:
    topic: Cétacés
    topic: Évolution
  subject:
    topic: Cétacés fossiles
  subject:
    topic: Baleines fossiles
  subject:
    topic: Cetacea
  subject:
    topic: Walvissen
  subject:
    topic: Evolutie
  subject:
    topic: Fossielen
  subject:
    topic: Wale
  subject:
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Aufsatzsammlung
  subject:
    topic: Fossile Wale
  subject:
    topic: Cetacea
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Cetacea, Fossil
  classification: QL737.C4 E335 1998eb
  classification: 599.5/138
  classification: 38.22
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Emergence of whales
    identifier: (DLC) 98036333
    identifier: (OCoLC)39533589
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    title info:
      title: Advances in vertebrate paleobiology
  identifier: 9781489901590 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1489901590 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0306458535
  identifier: 9780306458538
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 140711
    record change date: 20260422180644.4
    record identifier: in00003548640
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng