M3#1803

3D models related to the publication: A basal representative of Cetacea from the Eocene of India.

Mohd Waqas, Romain Weppe, Vincent Lazzari, Cecile Blondel, Laurent Marivaux, Anne-Lise Charruault, Maurin Tarly, Adélaide Euriat, Renaud Lebrun, Rajendra Rana, Thierry Smith and Maëva J. Orliac

The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D models of the holotype and only specimen of Kalakocetus aurorae, a new cetacean retrieved from the Kalakot area in northwestern India. This specimen consists in a left hemimandible preserving the root of i3, p2, p4, m1 and m3 in situ. Its primitive morphology, with a tricuspid m3 morphologically intermediate between Raoellidae and Pakicetidae, makes it the first offshoot of Cetacea and provides crucial new elements to understand the setting up of the peculiar dental morphology of early cetaceans.