Pp. 366, 37 full page photo plates and diagrams, 88 text-figures. Original stiff gray printed wrappers, 4to. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, no. 482. Archaeocetes, or "ancient whales", are a paraphyletic group of cetaceans that gave rise to the modern cetaceans. Recent fossil and molecular evidence show that Archaeocetes are descendants of the even-toed ungulates, the Artiodactyls. From the library of University of Michigan paleontologist John A. Dorr with his name-stamp on the front wrapper.