Pachycetus Van Beneden 1883 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae

Synonyms: Basilotritus Goldin and Zvonok 2013, Platyosphys Kellogg 1936

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1883. Sur quelques ossements de cetaces fossiles, recuelillis dans des couches phosphatees entre l'Elbe et le Wesser. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des lettres et des Beaux-Arts 6:27-33

Parent taxon: Pachycetinae according to H. J. van Vliet et al. 2024

See also Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Fordyce 2003, Gao and Ni 2015, Geinitz 1883, Gingerich et al. 2022, Gingerich et al. 1997, Gingerich and Zouhri 2015, Goldin and Zvonok 2013, Goldin et al. 2014, Gritsenko 2001, Kellogg 1928, Kellogg 1936, Kuhn 1935, Martínez-Cáceres et al. 2017, Marx et al. 2016, Mchedlidze 1970, McKenna and Bell 1997, Moustafa 1954, Palmer 1904, Rothausen 1986, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, True 1912, Uhen 2013, Uhen 2018, Uhen and Pyenson 2007, Van Beneden 1883, van Vliet 2004, van Vliet et al. 2020, van Vliet et al. 2023, Wetmore 1940 and Whitmore and Sanders 1977

Sister taxon: Antaecetus

Subtaxa: Pachycetus paulsonii Pachycetus wardii

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Type: Pachycetus robustus

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene to Oligocene of the Netherlands (1 collection)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), Germany (8), the Netherlands (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (14), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: North Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (1)

Total: 38 collections including 43 occurrences

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