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

["Mikko K. Haaramo" <mikko.haaramo@helsinki.fi>]

Molar teeth look more like those of the crab-eating seal (_Lobodon
carcinophagus_).

http://images.google.fi/images?q=Lobodon

Maybe an early attemp of krill-eating. :)

--Mikko Haaramo


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
David Marjanovic
Sent: 16. elokuuta 2006 14:52
To: DML
Subject: Re: Janjucetus hunderi (RE: Ancient Whale Broke all the Rules)

> 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.

It looks a lot like *Dakosaurus*!

But... I thought toothed predatory mysticetes from the Oligocene were
nothing new? So just the completeness and the huge unmammalian eyes are new?