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Dokl Biol Sci
; 483(1): 222-224, 2018 Nov.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30603942
ABSTRACT
New information on the microstructures, general morphology, and features of preservation of plates of a whalebone from the Miocene Kovran locality in the Kamchatka Peninsula are provided. The plates have a chevron-like bend which is absent in extant Balaenopteridae, Balaenidae, and Eschrichtiidae. This shape is possibly related to the filtration mechanism characteristic of these whales.