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archaeocetes

archaeocetes is the plural of archaeocete.

Meaning of archaeocete

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

Questions about archaeocetes

What is archaeocetes the plural of?
Archaeocetes is the plural of archaeocete.

Words near archaeocetes in the dictionary

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

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