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Llanocetus denticrenatus not a baleen whale or filter feeder, per 2018 paper[edit]

https://www.livescience.com/62537-whale-tooth-filter-feeding.html

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30455-X "Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution"

Study author Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, said in a statement. "Llanocetus was both large and a ferocious predator and probably had little in common with how modern whales behave."

This finding also reverses the order researchers had long assumed for whale evolution. L. denticrenatus may have been what researchers call a "suction-assisted raptorial feeder" — a big animal that sucks smaller animals into its mouth before noshing on them — but it didn't do any filter feeding. --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:15, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Anderson & Barnes 2000[edit]

Didn't think I'd need to bring this up, but seeing as information from Anderson & Barnes 2000 [1] has been added, removed by me, then added AGAIN seems to show that an in-depth explanation is needed outside of just the edit summary. Afforementioned edits both added decently sized paragraphs about supposed Llanocetus remains from Bangladesh. However, multiple things are faulty with these contributions. Aside from poor grammar and nonexistant punctuation in the first of these instances, a good 60% of the text was verbatum quoted from the abstract of Anderson & Barnes 2000 in both edits. Furthermore, despite copy pasting the abstract, the actual paper was not cited in either case. Finally, the paper is entirely missplaced for this article. The remains from Bangladesh cannot be referred to Llanocetus in accordance with the actual publication, in fact Llanocetus is merely mentioned once in reference to its relatively great size for such an early genus. Ultimately I'm putting this information here, as I fear that the same edits will be repeated a third time given the disregard of my previous summary explaining why the information was removed Armin Reindl (talk) 10:32, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]