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- who: M. Pickford from the Because of this huge gap in the fossil record, some researchers have proposed that anthracotheres (specifically the bothriodontines) represent the missing lineage that links whales and hippos (Boisserie et_al, a, b) or that the genera Kulutherium and Morotochoerus are primitive hippopotamids which extend the fossil record of the family back to the early Miocene of East Africa (Orliac et_al, )The former hypothesis has not found general acceptance, mainly because anthracothere skeletal and dental morphology is widely divergent from that of hippos on the one hand (Pickford, ) and that of whales on the . . .
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