Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and L. G. Barnes. 2008. The Herpetocetinae, a new subfamily of extinct baleen whales (Mammalia, Cetacea, Cetotheriidae). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:141-180

Belongs to Herpetocetus according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Bisconti et al. 2013, El Adli et al. 2014, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Goldin and Startsev 2014, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Steeman 2010, Tanaka et al. 2018, Whitmore and Barnes 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Herpetocetus bramblei, Herpetocetus morrowi, Herpetocetus scaldiensis, Herpetocetus sendaicus, Mizuhoptera fujinensis, Mizuhoptera kanayaensis

Type specimen: USNM 182962, a partial skull (partial cranium). Its type locality is Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation, which is in a Zanclean estuary/bay sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation

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