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Re: Whales and Hippos
In a message dated 9/20/01 6:35:13 AM, nf.taylor@ntlworld.com writes:
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This is OLD news, as the fossils were discovered and published around ten
years ago.
While Cetacean/artyodactyl link has been confirmed since then, please note
that the last common ancestor between flipper and hippos MUST date to the
early Paleocene as
Pakicetus, the amphibious "proto-whale" predates Diacodexis, the first
documented artyodactyl by several million years.
It also predates hippos by tens of millions of years, thereby disproving the
existance of clade "whippomorpha."
eric l.