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M3#149

bony labyrinth of ? Carolinacetus sp. from Kpogamé, Togo

Data citation: Maëva J. Orliac Logo and Mickaël Mourlam Logo, 2017. M3#149. doi: 10.18563/m3.sf.149

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anterior ampulla, anterior semicircular canal, basal ridge, cochlear aqueduct, cochlear canal, common crus, fenestra cochleae, fenestra vestibuli, lateral ampulla, lateral semicircular canal, posterior ampulla, posterior semicircular canal, primary bony lamina, secondary common crus, vestibular aqueduct

Specimen infos
Collection
Collection : Université de Montpellier : Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, France

Inventory number : UM KPG-M 164


Information
Sex : indet

Age (if applicable) : Middle Eocene Lutetian

Material Type : Skull, petrosal

Origin : Kpogamé, Togo

Taxonomy
Class : Mammalia

Order : Artiodactyla

Family : Protocetidae

Genus : ?Carolinacetus

Species :✝indet.


Description
isolated left petrosal, tegmen tympani and its anterior process partially preserved, mastoid process broken.

Related article
3D models related to the publication: Infrasonic and ultrasonic hearing evolved after the emergence of modern whales
Maëva J. Orliac and Mickaël Mourlam
Published online: 08/06/2017

Keywords: archaeocete; Artiodactyla; bony labyrinth; cochlea; Lutetian

https://doi.org/10.18563/m3.3.2.e4

  Abstract

    This contribution contains the 3D models of the bony labyrinths of two protocetid archaeocetes from the locality of Kpogamé, Togo, described and figured in the publication of Mourlam and Orliac (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.061  


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Published in Volume 03, Issue 02 (2017)
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