CETOTHERIIDAE RECORDS FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF PATAGONIA EXPAND THE DIVERSITY OF BALEEN WHALES FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN
Journal: Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
Year: 2025

The marine outcrops of the Patagonian Miocene (Argentina) encompass one of the most important assemblages of fossil mysticetes recorded worldwide, including key records of extant lineages. The Patagonian Late Miocene records comprise balaenids (right whales) or cetotheriids neobalaenines (pygmy right whales). In the last years, the increase of fieldwork efforts in Miocene outcrops of Patagonia has led to the discovery of new specimens, thus expanding our knowledge of mysticetes diversity from re