Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae
Alternative combinations: Notocetus marplesi, Prosqualodon marplesi
Full reference: M. R. Dickson. 1964. The skull and other remains of Prosqualodon marplesi, a new species of fossil whale. New Zealand Journa of Geology and Geophysics 7:626-635
Belongs to Otekaikea according to Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce 2014
See also Dickson 1964, Fordyce 1980, Fordyce 1991, Fordyce 1991, Fordyce 1994, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Keyes 1973 and Lambert et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Otekaikea huata
Type specimen: OM C.75.27, a partial skull. Its type locality is Trig Z, which is in a Waitakian marine siltstone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Trig Z
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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