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archaeocete

archaeocete noun: any extinct cetacean of the parvorder Archaeoceti.

Noun

archaeocete (plural archaeocetes)

  1. Any extinct cetacean of the parvorder Archaeoceti
    • Our estimates further show that the most recent common ancestor of extant Osedax appeared during the Late Cretaceous (ca. 74.8 Ma), indicating that the radiation of Osedax would be concomitant with the occurrence of large marine reptiles and teleost fishes in the oceans [56, 57 ] rather than with...2015 November 19, “Bone-Eating Worms Spread: Insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of archaeocete

pluralarchaeocetes

Questions about archaeocete

What does archaeocete mean?
Archaeocete means any extinct cetacean of the parvorder Archaeoceti.
What part of speech is archaeocete?
Archaeocete is a noun.
What is the plural of archaeocete?
The plural of archaeocete is archaeocetes.

Words near archaeocete in the dictionary

  1. archaeobotanical
  2. archaeobotanically
  3. archaeobotanist
  4. archaeobotanists
  5. archaeobotany
  6. archaeocete
  7. archaeocetes
  8. archaeoclimatic
  9. archaeocyath
  10. archaeocyathan
  11. archaeocyathans

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