Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae
Full reference: F. G. Marx, C.-H. Tsai, and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. A new Early Oligocene toothed ‘baleen’ whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest. Royal Society Open Science 2(12):150476
Parent taxon: Aetiocetidae according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Berta 2017, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx et al. 2016, Marx et al. 2015, Tsai et al. 2024 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Aetiocetinae, Aetiocetus, Ashorocetus, Chonecetinae, Chonecetus, Kaaucetus, Morawanocetinae, Salishicetus, Tohoraata, Willungacetus
Subtaxa: Fucaia buelli Fucaia goedertorum Fucaia humilis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington collections)
• Eocene of United States (1: Washington)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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