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The earliest record of a marine mammal (Cetacea: Basilosauridae) from the Eocene of Amazonia

Svitozar DavydenkoSchmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kiev, 01030Ukraine
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Manuel J. LaimeDepartamento de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. Arenales 1256, Jesús Maria, Lima 14, Perú
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Pavel Gol'dinSchmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kiev, 01030UkraineORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-1384
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Article: e1549060 | Received 22 Feb 2018, Accepted 21 Aug 2018, Published online: 11 Mar 2019
 
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank R. Salas-Gismondi (MUSM) for allowing us to study this material under his care; C. Chacaltana Budiel (Instituto Nacional Geológico, Minero y Metalúrgico, Lima, Peru) for new data on the geology of the Bagua Basin; and M. D. Uhen, O. Lambert, and an anonymous reviewer for their comments on the manuscript.

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