Mammalia - Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
Alternative combinations: Balaenoptera gastaldii, Cetotherium gastaldii
Synonym: Cetotherium cortesi Brandt 1873
Full reference: P. Strobel. 1881. Icongrafia Campararata delle Ossa Fossillii del gabinetto di Storia Naturale dell'Universita de Parma. Folia Parma 1-32
Belongs to Eschrichtioides according to P. Gol'din and M. E. Steeman 2015
See also Bisconti 2008, Bisconti and Varola 2006, Brandt 1873, Deméré 1986, Deméré et al. 2005, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Portis 1886, Strobel 1881, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Tsai et al. 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimens:
- Eschrichtioides gastaldii: MRSN 13802, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Cortandone, which is in a Zanclean deltaic sandstone in the Sabbie d'Asti Formation of Italy.
- Cetotherium cortesi: MGPT 13802.
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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