†Hibacetus hirosei Otsuka and Ota 2008 (whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Full reference: H. Otsuka and Y. Ota. 2008. Cetotheres from the early Middle Miocene Bihoku Group in Shobara District, Hiroshima Prefecture, West Japan. Miscellaneous Reports of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History 49(2):1-66
Belongs to Hibacetus according to H. Otsuka and Y. Ota 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: HMN-F00084, a partial skull (partial skull). Its type locality is Monde-cho, which is in a Burdigalian estuary/bay sandstone/limestone in the Itahashi Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Monde-cho
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