Mycteriacetus bellunensis Pilleri 1985

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Alternative combinations: Argyrocetus bellunensis, Eurhinodelphis bellunensis, Mycteracetus bellunensis

Full reference: G. Pilleri. 1985. The Miocene Cetacea of the Belluno Sandstones (Eastern Southern Alps). Memoire degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 37:1-87

Belongs to Mycteracetus according to M. Fornasiero and L. Del Vavero 2014

See also Bianucci and Landini 2002, Lambert 2004, Lambert 2005 and Pilleri 1985

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Geological Institute, University of Padua 26404. Its type locality is Libano, which is in an Aquitanian marine sandstone in the Libano Sandstone Formation of Italy.

Distribution: found only at Libano

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