Uranocetus gramensis Steeman 2009 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: M. E. Steeman. 2009. A new baleen whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark and early mysticete hearing. Palaeontology 52(5):1169-1190

Belongs to Uranocetus according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015

See also Bisconti et al. 2013, Marx 2011 and Steeman 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MSM p 813, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Gram Brick Works, which is in a Tortonian marine claystone in the Gram Formation of Denmark.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gram Brick Works

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