 Baleen (source code)

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= Baleen

Keratinous plates used in filtering <food> in living <mysticetes>. Its presence in a <fossil> may be inferred from associated <anatomy> but must not be confused with direct preservation of the plates. <Morphological and molecular evidence for a stepwise evolutionary transition from teeth to baleen in mysticete whales by Thomas A. Deméré and others>[Systematic Biology 57, pp. 15–37; palatal foramina, tooth characters and enamel-gene pseudogenes]{ref}

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