First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State

Abstract

Citation for this article: Nelson, M. D., and M. D. Uhen. 2018. First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1428197.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Christian Sidor for facilitating this research as M. Nelson's undergraduate research project; the Sidor lab group for offering their advice and support; Betty Willison, who collected the specimen; the Burke Museum; our reviewers, S. Godfrey and A. Boersma; R. Ewan Fordyce for personally providing M. Nelson with a lexicon of the odontocete skull; and the University of Washington's Mary Gates Endowment for providing funding for this research.

Handling editor: Olivier Lambert.