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Image: Arktocara skull in ventral view

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Description: Skull of Arktocara yakataga (USNM 214830) in ventral view. (A) Illustrated skull with low opacity mask, interpretive line art, and labels for skull elements. Dotted lines indicate uncertainty of sutures, dashed lines indicate broad morphological features, and hatched lines indicate sediment obscuring the fossil. (B) photograph of skull in ventral view, photography by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
Title: Arktocara skull in ventral 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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License: CC BY 4.0
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