Protocetus atavus Fraas 1904 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Full reference: E. Fraas. 1904. Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem Unteren Mitteleocän vom Mokattam bei Cairo. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 6(3):199-220

Belongs to Protocetus according to M. Fornasiero and L. Del Vavero 2014

See also Abel 1914, Fraas 1904, Gingerich 2008, Gingerich 2012, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Pilleri 1985, Stromer 1908, van Vliet 2004 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SMNS 11085, a partial skeleton (skull and partial skeleton). Its type locality is Gebel Mokattam, lower, which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Mokattam Formation of Egypt.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gebel Mokattam, lower

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