Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae

Full reference: M. D. Uhen and P. D. Gingerich. 2001. New genus of dorudontine archaeocete (Cetacea) from the Middle-to-Late Eocene of South Carolina. Marine Mammal Science 17(1):1-34

Belongs to Chrysocetus according to M. D. Uhen 2018

See also Gingerich and Zouhri 2015, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Schouten 2011, Uhen 2002, Uhen 2004, Uhen 2008, Uhen 2013, Uhen and Gingerich 2001 and van Vliet 2004

Sister taxon: Chrysocetus fouadassii

Type specimen: SCSM 87.195, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Santee Portland Cement Co. quarry, which is in a Priabonian marine wackestone/grainstone in the Tupelo Bay Formation of South Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Santee Portland Cement Co. quarry

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.