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closest relative

the article reads:

The closest relative of Piscobalaena appears to have been Herpetocetus, from the Mio-Pliocene of the northern hemisphere.[citation needed]

Berta (2017)^[1] has Herptocetus and Nannocetus sister to each other and Piscobalaena sister to those two, but notes some variation in the literature. I I'm going to cut this line for now, until there is better resolution in the Cetotheriidae-- and folks can look there for a loose classification in the meantime.

The rest of this paragraph still needs to be checked and sourced...

^ Berta, Annalisa (2017-10-02). The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2325-8.

--xarzin (talk) 19:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

citation needed

it appears there are several citation needed tags here. I started pulling at threads but didn't finish. These might be helpful though:

Marx, Felix G.; Collareta, Alberto; Gioncada, Anna; Post, Klaas; Lambert, Olivier; Bonaccorsi, Elena; Urbina, Mario; Bianucci, Giovanni (2017). "How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid". Journal of Anatomy. 231 (2): 212–220. doi:10.1111/joa.12622. ISSN 1469-7580.

Bianucci, Giovanni; Collareta, Alberto (2022). "An overview of the fossil record of cetaceans from the East Pisco Basin (Peru)". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 61 (1): 19–60. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2022.04. ISSN 0375-7633.

--xarzin (talk) 23:49, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Berta, Annalisa (2017-10-02). The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2325-8.

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