†Indocetus ramani Sahni and Mishra 1975 (whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae
Full reference: A. Sahni and V. P. Mishra. 1975. Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India. Monograph of the Palaeontological Society of India 3:1-48
Belongs to Indocetus according to S. Bajpai and J. G. M. Thewissen 2014
See also Bajpai and Thewissen 1998, Gingerich et al. 1993, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Sahni and Mishra 1975 and Thewissen et al. 2001
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: LUVP 11034, a skull. Its type locality is Harudi, which is in a Lutetian shallow subtidal mudstone in the Harudi Formation of India.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of India (2 collections), Pakistan (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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