Odontoceti is treated as the toothed-whale branch of sampled Neoceti, but its early fossil membership and character sequence are reconstructed from separate taxa; the branch is not a single observed lineage or an exact 34 Ma origin event. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
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Odontoceti is treated as the toothed-whale branch of sampled Neoceti, but its early fossil membership and character sequence are reconstructed from separate taxa; the branch is not a single observed lineage or an exact 34 Ma origin event.
claim:taxon:odontoceti:topologyodontoceti is displayed at 34–0 Ma only as the review's sampled stem-to-living odontocete envelope, not an exact clade origin. The interval is a source-bounded sample window, not a global FAD, LAD, divergence date, continuous occupancy claim or direct-ancestor assertion.
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