Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Full reference: P. D. Gingerich and M. D. Uhen. 1996. Ancalecetus simonsi, a new dorudontine archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the early late Eocene of Wadi Hitan, Egypt. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(13):359-401
Belongs to Ancalecetus according to M. D. Uhen 2018
See also Gingerich 2008, Gingerich and Uhen 1996, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Schouten 2011, Uhen 2002, Uhen 2004, Uhen 2009 and van Vliet 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CGM 42290, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Wadi Hitan ZV-81, which is in a Priabonian shoreface sandstone in the Birket Qarun Formation of Egypt.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Wadi Hitan ZV-81
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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