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A new basal porpoise, Pterophocaena nishinoi (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea), from the upper Miocene of Japan and its phylogenetic relationships

Mizuki Murakami Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Nishiwaseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan
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Chieko Shimada Mineral Industry Museum, Akita University, 28-2 Tegata-Osawa, Akita, 010-8502, Japan; Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8567, Japan
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Yoshinori Hikida Nakagawa Museum of Natural History, 28-9, Yasukawa, Nakagawa-cho, Hokkaido, 098-2626, Japan
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Hiromichi Hirano Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Nishiwaseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan
Pages 1157-1171 | Received 25 Mar 2011, Accepted 13 Mar 2012, Published online: 28 Aug 2012

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