Cetotheriophanes capellinii Brandt 1873

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Alternative combinations: Balaenoptera capellinii, Cetotherium (Cetotheriophanes) capellinii, Plesiocetus capellinii

Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372

Belongs to Cetotheriophanes according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2005

See also Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874, Cuscani Politi 1961, Deméré 1986, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is San Lorenzo in Collina, which is in a Zanclean/Piacenzian shallow subtidal claystone in Italy

Distribution: found only at Orciano Pisano

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