Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Alternative combination: Basilosaurus hussaini
Full reference: P. D. Gingerich, M. Arif, M. A. Bhatti, M. Anwar, and W. J. Sanders. 1997. Basilosaurus drazindai and Basiloterus hussaini, new archaeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation, with a revised interpretation of ages of whale-bearing strata in the Kirthar Group of the Sulaiman Range, Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(2):55-81
Belongs to Basiloterus according to M. D. Uhen 2018
See also Gingerich et al. 1997, Goldin and Zvonok 2013, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Schouten 2011, Thewissen et al. 2001, Uhen 2002, Uhen 2004, Uhen 2009, Uhen 2013 and van Vliet 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSP-UM 3190, a set of vertebrae (two lumbar vertebrae). Its type locality is Bari Nadi 3, which is in a Bartonian coastal shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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