Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Alternative spellings: Cetotherium (Plesiocetopsis), Plesiocetus (Plesiocetopsis)
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Parent taxon: Tranatocetidae according to P. Gol'din and M. E. Steeman 2015
See also Berta 2017, Brandt 1873, Canto et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Hay 1930, Kellogg 1928, Kellogg 1931, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Steeman 2010, Trouessart 1904, True 1912 and Whitmore and Barnes 2008
Sister taxa: Mesocetus, Mixocetus
Subtaxa: Plesiocetopsis hupschii Plesiocetopsis occidentalis
Distribution:
• Neogene of Chile (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (3), Chile (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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