Atocetus iquensis Muizon 1988 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244

Belongs to Atocetus according to C. Peredo et al. 2018

See also Cozzuol 1996, Dawson 1996, Ichishima et al. 1995 and Muizon 1988

Sister taxon: Atocetus nasalis

Type specimen: PPI 113, a skull. Its type locality is Cerro la Bruja, which is in a Miocene offshore shelf siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cerro la Bruja

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