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Image: Arktocara skull in dorsal view

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Description: Skull of Arktocara yakataga (USNM 214830) in dorsal view. (A) Illustrated skull with low opacity mask, interpretive line art, and labels for skull elements. Dotted lines indicate uncertainty of sutures and hatched lines indicate sediment obscuring the fossil. (B) photograph of skull in dorsal view, photography by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Title: Arktocara skull in dorsal view
Credit: Boersma, A. (2016). "Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea". Peer J 4. DOI:10.7717/peerj.2321. PMC: 4991871.
Author: Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson
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