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SUBMITTER: Marx FG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5098998 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20161005 10
The Pisco-Ica and Sacaco basins of southern Peru are renowned for their abundance of exceptionally preserved fossil cetaceans, several of which retain traces of soft tissue and occasionally even stomach contents. Previous work has mostly focused on odontocetes, with baleen whales currently being restricted to just three described taxa. Here, we report a new Late Miocene rorqual (family Balaenopteridae), <i>Incakujira anillodefuego</i> gen. et sp. nov., based on two exceptionally preserved specim ...[more]