The Early Radiations of Cetacea (Mammalia): Evolutionary Pattern and Developmental Correlations

By J. Thewissen, E. Williams. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (2009, background): “Outlines indicate where specific fossils were buried, and the hammer provides a scale (image from Thewissen and Williams (2002), © Annual Reviews) Pakicetids are related to artiodactyls, as was shown by the cladistic analysis (Gatesy and O'Leary 2001; Geisler et al. 2007; Thewissen et al. 2001),…”
• Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record (2011, background): “…the basis for understanding the range of musculoskeletal, sensory, ontogenetic, and ecological shifts that allowed early cetaceans to transition from a semiaquatic to an obligately aquatic lifestyle (Thewissen and Bajpai 2001; Thewissen and Williams 2002; Gingerich 2005a; Gingerich et al. 2009).”
• Land-to-sea transition in early whales: evolution of Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea) in relation to skeletal proportions and locomotion of living semiaquatic mammals (2003, background): “Thewissen et al. (1994, 1996), Thewissen and Fish (1997), Thewissen and Williams (2002), and Madar et al. (2002) inferred that Ambulocetus swam like otters.”
• ISOTOPIC RECORDS FROM EARLY WHALES AND SEA COWS: CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION (2006, background): “The carbon isotope composition of bioapatite is directly controlled by the 13C value of an animal’s diet (Ambrose and Norr, 1993; Tieszen and Fagre, 1993).”
• Understanding Evolutionary Trees (2008, background): “Not surprisingly, the fossil record of whales, which is becoming increasingly extensive, shows that the early ancestors of whales (e.g., Pakicetus, Ambulocetus) bore no substantial resemblance to modern hippos at all (Thewissen and Bajpai 2001; Thewissen and Williams 2002).”
• Using stable isotope biogeochemistry to study marine mammal ecology (2010, background): “…of papers (Thewissen et al. 1996, Roe et al. 1998, Clementz et al. 2006) has explored the ecology of Eocene-aged Archaeocete whales in five families: Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, Protocetidae, and Basilosauridae (see Thewissen and Williams 2002 for descriptions of each family).”