Lomacetus Muizon 1986 (porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Alternative spelling: Lamacetus

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1986. Un nouveau Phocoenidae (Odontoceti, Mammalia) du Miocene superieur de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Comptes - rendus hebdomadaires des seances de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II 303(16):1509-1512

Parent taxon: Phocoenidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Colpaert et al. 2015, Cozzuol 1996, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1986, Murakami et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Australithax, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoena, Phocoeninae, Phocoenoides, Phocoenoidinae, Piscolithax, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus

Subtaxa: Lomacetus ginsburgi

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Type: Lomacetus ginsburgi

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Peru (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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