perspectives on marine vertebrate paleontology
Welcome to part 3 of my blog post series on the toothed mysticete Coronodon - in part 1, I gave a bit of background on the history of research on Coronodon and other toothed mysticetes, as well as some of the new fossils of Coronodon havensteini . In part 2, I summarized the two new species, Coronodon planifrons and Coronodon newtonorum . In part 3, I dive into the broader evolutionary significance of Coronodon , whether or not it had baleen, its phylogenetic relationships, possible other relatives or membe
See Coronodon Part 1 here.