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A Reevaluation of the Morphology, Paleoecology, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic Walrus Pelagiarctos

BACKGROUND: A number of aberrant walruses (Odobenidae) have been described from the Neogene of the North Pacific, including specialized suction-feeding and generalist fish-eating taxa. At least one of these fossil walruses has been hypothesized to have been a specialized predator of other marine mam...

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Autores principales: Boessenecker, Robert W., Churchill, Morgan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054311