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The 9 pages that link to Basilosaurus, each with the reason it gives.

• CetaceaBroader topic: Its reduced hind limbs show how far early whales had moved from terrestrial locomotion.

• PakicetusRelated: It illustrates the later shift to a fully aquatic whale body plan.

• Evolution of cetaceansBroader topic: Its vestigial legs and fully aquatic form mark a late stage of the land-to-water transition.

• AmbulocetusRelated: Its reduced hind limbs contrast with Ambulocetus’s more functional limbs.

• ArchaeocetiBroader topic: Its reduced hind limbs and aquatic body show how far some archaeocetes had shifted from land.

• AlabamaBroader topic: Its fossils are among Alabama’s best-known Eocene discoveries.

• Evolution of tetrapodsBroader topic: Its vestigial hind limbs record the return of a tetrapod lineage to aquatic life.

• CetaceanBroader topic: Its reduced hind limbs document the transition toward fully aquatic cetacean anatomy.

• DorudonRelated: It was a larger basilosaurid that lived alongside Dorudon in ancient seas.