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Aetiocetus
* ''A. polydentatus''
* ''A. tomitai''
* ''A. weltoni''
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''Aetiocetus'' is a genus of extinct basal mysticete, or baleen whale that lived , in the late Oligocene in the North Pacific ocean, around Japan, Mexico, and Oregon, U.S. It was first described by Douglas Emlong in 1966 and currently contains known four species, ''A. cotylalveus'', ''A. polydentatus'', ''A. tomitai'', and ''A. weltoni''. These whales are remarkable for their retention of teeth and presence of nutrient foramina, indicating that they possessed baleen. Thus, Aetiocetus represents the transition from teeth to baleen in Oligocene mysticetes. Baleen is a highly derived character, or synapomorphy, of mysticetes, and is a keratinous structure that grows from the palate, or roof of the mouth, of the whale. The presence of baleen is inferred from the fossil record in the skull of ''Aetiocetus''.
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