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Description: Diagram showning known fossil pieces after the Eocene artiodactylan mammal Pakicetus.[1][2]Sources ↑ Gingerich P.D. et.al, "Origin of whales in epicontinental remnant seas: new evidence from the early Eocene of Pakistan", Science 220 (22 april 1983), p. 403-406. ↑ Thewissen J.G.M. et.al, "Skeletons of terrestrial cetaeans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls", Nature 423, nr 38/2001 (20 september 2001), p. 277-281. Skull fragments of Pakicetus and restoration after Gingerich et.al (1983), and skeletal remains with reconstruction after Thewissen et.al (2001). [1] and [2]: Fully reconstructed skeleton of Pakicetus]. Diagrams of Pakicetus bones (after Thewissen et.al, 2001). Pakicetus restoration on Science cover in 1983.
Title: Pakicetus fossil
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