The whale-origin synthesis treats sampled raoellids as close fossil relatives used to test the land-to-water transition, while their relationship to Cetacea remains a phylogenetic inference rather than evidence that a raoellid specimen was a direct whale ancestor. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
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The whale-origin synthesis treats sampled raoellids as close fossil relatives used to test the land-to-water transition, while their relationship to Cetacea remains a phylogenetic inference rather than evidence that a raoellid specimen was a direct whale ancestor.
claim:taxon:raoellidae:topologyraoellidae is displayed at 48–47 Ma only as the sampled raoellid interval in the whale-origin review, not a direct whale ancestor or global family range. 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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