Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Full reference: T. Kimura and Y. Hasegawa. 2010. A new baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae) from the earliest late Miocene of Japan and a reconsideration of the phylogeny of cetotheres. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):577-591

Belongs to Joumocetus according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Bisconti et al. 2013, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Goldin and Startsev 2014, Kimura and Hasegawa 2010 and Marx and Fordyce 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GMNH-PV-2401, a skull. Its type locality is Kabura River, which is in a Tortonian deep-water horizon in the Haraichi Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kabura River

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