Sentences with phrase «toothed mysticete»
Like other early mysticetes, this one still had teeth — its name means «toothed mysticete.»
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However, the newly described whale has teeth, so the paleontologists dubbed it Mystacodon, meaning «toothed mysticete.»
It was larger than other toothed mysticetes, with a skull nearly one meter long.
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Based on the age of nearby rocks, the scientists estimate that the Arktocara fossil comes from the late Oligocene epoch, around the time ancient whales diversified into two groups — baleen whales (mysticetes) and toothed whales (odontocetes).