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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cetacean of the family Basilosauridæ.
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- n. zoology Any member of the Basilosauridae.
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“This would have permitted birth of larger, more precocial infants, and we would predict that a near-term basilosaurid fetal skeleton, if found intact, would be positioned to be born tail-first as is seen in living whales.”
“In their discussion of sauropterygians and basilosaurid cetaceans, for example, Bousfield and LeBlond cited popular and semi-popular works as their most authoritative references and apparently did not consult any of the technical literature on these subjects.”
“Mammalodon, but rather that the earliest members of the Neoceti probably evolved from a basilosaurid whale.”
“Generalized Eocene protocetid and basilosaurid Archaeoceti such as Maiacetus and Dorudon were on or near the main line of early whale evolution leading to later Mysticeti and Odontoceti, which appeared at the end of the Eocene or beginning of the Oligocene.”
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