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Viglino, Mariana; Buono, Mónica R.; Gutstein, Carolina S.; Cozzuol, Mario A.; Cuitino, José I. (Inst. Paleobiologii Pan, 2018)The contents of the superfamily Platanistoidea, an early-diverging lineage comprising extinct species and a single extant representative of South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica), remain controversial. We describe ...
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Valenzuela-Toro, Ana M.; Gutstein, Carolina S.; Suárez, Mario E.; Otero, Rodrigo; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015)© 2015 by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The genus Mirounga is the largest living member of the Phocidae family (true seals) and includes two species: M. angustirostris and M. leonina. These species exhibit a ...
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Gutstein, Carolina S.; Figueroa Bravo, Constanza P.; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Yury Yáñez, Roberto E.; Cozzuol, Mario A.; Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Elsevier, 2014)This study compares the bony ear morphology of freshwater and marine odontocetes (toothed whales). Odontocetes are unique among marine mammals in two important respects: 1) they use echolocation; 2) at least three lineages ...
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Valenzuela-Toro, Ana M.; Gutstein, Carolina S.; Varas-Malca, Rafael M.; Suarez, Mario E.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (2013)Modern pinnipeds distributed along the coasts of continental South America consist almost entirely of otariids (sea lions and fur seals). In contrast, phocids (true seals) are present only on the southernmost extreme of ...
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Sallaberry Ayerza, Michel; Rubilar Rogers, David; Suárez, Mario E.; Gutstein, Carolina S. (Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, 2007)The fossil skull of a procellariid, Pachyptila sp., from Late Miocene marine sediments of the Bahía Inglesa Formation (Midde Miocene-Pliocene) of Northern Chile is described. The fossil is compared with extant species of ...