Janjucetus hunderi (RE: Ancient Whale Broke all the Rules)

["Choo, Brian" <bchoo@museum.vic.gov.au>]

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An exceedingly bizarre animal - it's a baleen (stem-group
mysticete)whale sans baleen which was trying to rip-off the
sauropterygia or perhaps Dakosaurus. JJ has a freakishly
reptilian-looking skull with a terminal roseatte of spike-like teeth and
the biggest eyes relative to body size of any marine mammal. Gentle
giant this thing definitely was not...

Fitzgerald, Erich M.G. (2006) A bizarre new toothed mysticete (Cetacea)
from Australia and the early evolution of baleen whales. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. FirstCite Early Online
Publishing DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3664.


Brian Choo

Vertebrate palaeontologist and illustrator
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