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Indohyus skull, bone-density and isotope sample

Separately catalogued skulls, limb bones and teeth support an aquatic-wading interpretation and a raoellid sister placement to Cetacea in the published analysis.

Represented range48–47 Ma
RegionsSindkhatudi bone bed, Upper Subathu Group, Kalakot, Jammu and Kashmir, India
CladesIndohyus · Raoellidae · Cetaceamorpha

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ecology · medium

Indohyus skulls RR 207 and RR 208, separate dense limb bones and a tooth-isotope sample support aquatic wading and a raoellid sister placement to Cetacea in the cited analysis, but not crown-cetacean membership or direct ancestry.

claim:event:indohyus-aquatic-raoellid-evidence

References

  1. Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of IndiaThewissen, J.G.M.; Cooper, L.N.; Clementz, M.T.; Bajpai, S.; Tiwari, B.N. · 2007 · DOI 10.1038/nature06343
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