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Pakicetus attocki (West, 1980) - fossil transitional whale skull (cast) from the Eocene of Pakistan. (public display, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)

From museum signage: "Pakicetus was one of the very earliest types of whales.

Features found in whales: - thickened bony cases around the ears on the underside of the skull, called auditory bullae.

Features found in land mammals: - teeth specialized for tearing and chewing food. "

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Archaeoceti, Pakicetidae

Stratigraphy: Kuldana Formation, Lower Eocene

Locality: Early Eocene Geological Survey of Pakistan locality 62 in the Ganda Kas area, Kala Chitta Hills, northern Punjab, northeastern Pakistan

See info. at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetidae" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetidae</a> and

<a href="http://faculty.virginia.edu/bio202/202-2002/Lectures 20202/thesissen et al 2001.pdf" rel="nofollow">faculty.virginia.edu/bio202/202-2002/Lectures%2020202/the...</a>
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Author James St. John

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