Mammalia - Cetacea - Patriocetidae
Alternative combinations: Patriocetus ehrlichi, Squalodon ehrlichi, Squalodon ehrlichii
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1865. Recheres sur les ossements provenant du crag d'Anvers. Les Squalodons. Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 35:1-80
Belongs to Patriocetus according to F. G. Marx 2011
See also Abel 1914, Brandt 1874, Dal Piaz 1916, Dubrovo and Sanders 2000, Kellogg 1923, Marx et al. 2011, Pia and Sickenberg 1934, Rothausen 1968, Sanders et al. 1982, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden 1865, Vanden Broeck 1874 and Zittel 1894
Sister taxa: Patriocetus denggi, Patriocetus kazakhstanicus
Type specimen: OL Cet. 18, a skull. Its type locality is Linz, which is in a Chattian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Linzer Sanden Formation of Austria.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Austria (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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