Atocetus Muizon 1988 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244

Parent taxon: Delphinida according to C. Peredo et al. 2018

See also Benton 1993, Cozzuol 1996, Dawson 1996, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Guo and Kohno 2023, Ichishima et al. 1995, Kazár et al. 2004, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Anacharsis, Brevirostrodelphis, Cammackacetus, Delphinavus, Delphinoidea, Hadrodelphis, Herbeinodelphis, Inioidea, Kentriodontidae, Kentriodontoidea, Liolithax, Lipotidae, Lipotoidea, Macrokentriodon, Miminiacetus, Miodelphis, Monodontoidae, Pictodelphis, Pithanodelphis, Platylithax, Tagicetus, Westmorelandelphis

Subtaxa: Atocetus iquensis Atocetus nasalis

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Peru (1 collection), United States (7: California, North Carolina)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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