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Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales

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Ekdale, Eric G, Deméré, Thomas A (2022): Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (2): 395-415, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab017, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/2/395/6278618

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