Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23
Belongs to Herpetocetus according to Y. Tanaka et al. 2018
See also Abel 1938, Bisconti et al. 2013, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Lydekker 1887, Newton 1891, Steeman 2010, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Beneden 1872, Vanden Broeck 1874 and Whitmore and Barnes 2008
Sister taxa: Herpetocetus bramblei, Herpetocetus morrowi, Herpetocetus sendaicus, Herpetocetus transatlanticus, Mizuhoptera fujinensis, Mizuhoptera kanayaensis
Type specimen: lectotype IRScNB CtM 379 a-b/Reg 14, a partial skull. Its type locality is Deurne (Fort 1), Deurne Sand, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal sandstone in the Diest Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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