Amphicetus later Van Beneden 1880 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1880. Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1880:11-27

Belongs to Amphicetus according to O. Hampe and I. Ritsche 2011

See also Palmer 1904, Steeman 2010, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden 1880

Sister taxa: Amphicetus editus, Amphicetus verus

Type specimen: IRScNB CtM 575/Reg 313, a partial skull (right periotic). Its type locality is Borsbeek, Fort 3, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal horizon in the Diest Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Belgium (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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