composite skeletons, species of Pakicetus are thought to have been 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in length. Pakicetus looked very different from...
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Hussain 1998) Pakicetus (Gingerich & Russell 1981) Pakicetus inachus (Gingerich & Russell 1981) Pakicetus attocki (West 1980) Pakicetus calcis (Cooper...
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plantigrade) Suina (semi-digitigrade) Hippopotamidae (semi-digitigrade) Pakicetus Indohyus Thylacine Felidae Hyenas Mongooses Canidae Derived hyaenodonts...
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Remingtonocetus and Pakicetus. The pterygoids connect as far back as the middle ear, much farther than other archaeocetes including the more ancient Pakicetus. Most...
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Ichthyolestes is the smallest pakicetid, approximately 29% smaller than Pakicetus, and has been considered “fox-sized.” They retain many features typical...
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branch contained ancestors of Cetacea; semi-aquatic protowhales such as Pakicetus in the group Archaeoceti, which developed into the exclusively aquatic...
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Hans Thewissen (section Discovery of Pakicetus)
of whales from land to water, including the discovery of Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, Indohyus, and Kutchicetus. In addition to his work on fossil discoveries...
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Remingtonocetids probably varied in size with the smallest species matching Pakicetus and the largest Ambulocetus. Remingtonocetids had longer snouts than other...
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molecular data are supported by the discovery of Pakicetus, the earliest archaeocete. The skeletons of Pakicetus show that whales did not derive directly from...
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adrenergic receptors, and apolipoproteins. In 2001, the fossil limbs of a Pakicetus (amphibioid cetacean the size of a wolf) and Ichthyolestes (an early whale...
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Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Pakicetidae Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes Ambulocetidae Ambulocetus Gandakasia Himalayacetus...
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cetaceans, possibly beginning about 52 million years ago, with the protowhale Pakicetus and other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti. This...
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The skeleton of Pakicetus, an extinct digitigrade mammal....
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mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf (resembling the extinct Pakicetus, an ancestor of modern whales). The resulting treatment transforms Felix...
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closely related to hippos and cetaceans through their resemblance to Pakicetus, than to basal pigs like Kubanochoerus and other ungulates. Entelodonts...
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found only in the skulls of cetaceans both living and extinct, including Pakicetus. About the size of a raccoon or domestic cat, this omnivorous pig-like...
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the anatomically similar family Anthracotheriidae. Two archaic whales (Pakicetus and Artiocetus) formed the sister group of the hippopotamid-anthracotheriid...
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Derived traits in R. kasrani, relative to older archaeocetes such as Pakicetus, include high-crowned cheek teeth, larger auditory bullae, larger mandibular...
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teeth together with some isolated lower teeth. In the cheek teeth of Pakicetus, the protocone lobe increases from the first molar to the third. In Nalacetus...
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(Oligocene) Kekenodon Tohoraonepu (Early to Middle Eocene) Gandakasia Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes (Eocene) Georgiacetinae Aegicetus Babiacetus Carolinacetus...
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Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Pakicetidae Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes Ambulocetidae Ambulocetus Gandakasia Himalayacetus...
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Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Pakicetidae Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes Ambulocetidae Ambulocetus Gandakasia Himalayacetus...
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needed] One of the oldest members of ancient cetaceans (Archaeoceti) is Pakicetus from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan. This is an animal the size of a wolf...
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cetaceans, possibly beginning about 52 million years ago with the proto-whale Pakicetus and other early cetacean ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti,...
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Palaeotherium Megacerops Basilosaurus Andrewsarchus Borealosuchus Gastornis Pakicetus Hyracodon Eocene turtle fossil Leptictidium Peratherium Hesperocyon Tritemnodon...
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whale"); Cetiosaurus ("whale lizard"); Ambulocetus ("walking whale"); Pakicetus ("whale from Pakistan"), "Perucetus" ("whale from Peru") -cheirus: Pronunciation:...
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Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Pakicetidae Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes Ambulocetidae Ambulocetus Gandakasia Himalayacetus...
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LCCN 2003054833. OCLC 52386174. Gingerich, Philip D.; Russell, Donald E. (1981). Pakicetus inachus, a New Archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) From the Early-Middle Eocene...
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Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Pakicetidae Pakicetus Nalacetus Ichthyolestes Ambulocetidae Ambulocetus Gandakasia Himalayacetus...
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~55.4–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Diacodexis pakistanensis and Pakicetus inachus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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