Indocetus ramani Sahni and Mishra 1975 (whale)

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

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