Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae

Alternative combinations: Antaecetus aithai, Pachycetus aithai, Platyosphys aithae

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 Antaecetus according to P. D. Gingerich et al. 2022

See also Gingerich and Zouhri 2015 and van Vliet et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FSAC Bouj-6, a set of vertebrae (horacic vertebrae T1-T4). 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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