Chrysocetus fouadassii Gingerich and Zouhri 2015 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich and S. Zouhri. 2015. New fauna of archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Bartonian middle Eocene of southern Morocco. Journal of African Earth Sciences 111:273-286

Belongs to Chrysocetus according to M. D. Uhen 2018

See also Gingerich and Zouhri 2015

Sister taxon: Chrysocetus healyorum

Type specimen: FSAC Bouj-1, a mandible (left partial dentary with P4eM1). Its type locality is Gueran, which is in a Bartonian shallow subtidal sandstone in the Aridal Formation of Western Sahara.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gueran

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