Scaldicetus perpinguis Pilleri and Pilleri 1982 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Alternative combinations: Hoplocetus perpenguis, Hoplocetus perpinguis

Full reference: G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317

Belongs to Scaldicetus according to O. Hampe 2006

See also Kazár 2002 and Pilleri and Pilleri 1982

Sister taxa: Otaria prisca, Scaldicetus antwerpiensis, Scaldicetus bellunensis, Scaldicetus caretti, Scaldicetus crispus, Scaldicetus degiorgii, Scaldicetus grandis, Scaldicetus inflatus, Scaldicetus macgeei, Scaldicetus minor

Type specimen: MGGCB-1COC52, a tooth. Its type locality is Valle Ceppi, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in Italy.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Valle Ceppi

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