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A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador

A new small probable Oligocene dolphin from Ecuador represents a new genus and species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha. The new taxon is known from a single juvenile skull and earbones; it differs from other archaic dolphins in features including widely exposed frontals at the vertex, a dorsally wide open...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Yoshihiro, Abella, Juan, Aguirre-Fernández, Gabriel, Gregori, Maria, Fordyce, R. Ewan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5737981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188380