Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich, M. al-Haq, W. Koenigswald, W. J. Sanders, B. H. Smith and I. S. Zalmout. 2009. New protocetid whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on land, precocial development, and sexual dimorphism. PLoS One 4(2):1-20

Belongs to Maiacetus according to P. D. Gingerich et al. 2009

See also Gingerich 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSP-UM 3475a, a partial skeleton (partial skeleton and partially ossified near-term fetus). Its type locality is Kunvit, Habib Rahi Formation, which is in a Lutetian coastal shale in the Habib Rahi Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kunvit, Habib Rahi Formation

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