Incacetus Colbert 1944 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: E. H. Colbert. 1944. A new fossil whale from the Miocene of Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 83(3):199-216

Parent taxon: Kentriodontinae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Colbert 1944, Cozzuol 1996, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ichishima et al. 1995, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead 1975 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Belonodelphis, Delphinodon

Subtaxa: Incacetus broggii

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Type: Incacetus broggii

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Santa Rosa (Miocene of Peru)

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