†Microcetus sharkovi Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971 (toothed whale)
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Full reference: I. A. Dubrovo and A. A. Sharkov. 1971. Kit iz verkhnego oligotsena Mangyshlaka (Whale from the upper Oligocene of Mangyshlak). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSR, Moscow 198(6):140-143
Belongs to Microcetus according to Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001 and Sanders et al. 1982
Sister taxon: Microcetus ambiguus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Karagiya, which is in a Chattian marine phosphorite/siltstone in the Karaginskaya Formation of Kazakhstan
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Karagiya
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