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    Archaeoceti ("ancient whales"), or Zeuglodontes in older literature, is a paraphyletic group of primitive cetaceans that lived from the Early Eocene to...
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    Pakicetidae ("Pakistani whales") is an extinct family of Archaeoceti (early whales) that lived during the Early Eocene in Pakistan. Unlike modern cetaceans...
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    Wadi al Hitan (category Archaeoceti)
    its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct sub-order of whales). The site reveals evidence for the...
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    with an amphibious lifestyle. Ambulocetus is classified in the group Archaeoceti—the ancient forerunners of modern cetaceans whose members span the transition...
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  • (2019). "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming...
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    Basilosauridae, the five families are classified under the suborder Archaeoceti. Cetaceans portal Evolution of cetaceans Berta, Sumich & Kovacs 2006...
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    land.[citation needed] One of the oldest members of ancient cetaceans (Archaeoceti) is Pakicetus from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan. This is an animal the...
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    protowhale Pakicetus and other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti. This group eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely...
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    Pelycosaurs Therapsida Synapsida Even-toed ungulates Cetacea Cetartiodactyla Archaeoceti Neoceti Cetacea Prosimians Simiiformes Primates Crustaceans Hexapoda...
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    proto-whale Pakicetus and other early cetacean ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti, which eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely aquatic...
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