Janjucetus hunderi Variant:Primed Snout-tail length 138 mm

Snout-tail length 138 mm

Earth's climate experienced several cycles of cooling and warming

Scale  1:35 - 57mm

This marine reptile lived in an environment that was full of other large predators

although it may also have hunted small terrestrial prey

Janjucetus hunderi Variant:Primed Snout-tail length 138 mmJanjucetus hunderi was an archaeocete cetacean from the Early Oligocene, dated to approximately 25 million years ago, whose remains come from southeastern Australia. It belongs to a basal lineage within Mysticeti (baleen whales), but retains a complete set of functional teeth, making it a key taxon for understanding the evolutionary transition from toothed cetaceans to toothless filter feeders. It was a relatively small whale compared to modern baleen