Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae
Full reference: D. Emlong. 1966. A new archaic cetacean from the Oligocene of Northwest Oregon. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 3:1-51
Belongs to Aetiocetus according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Barnes et al. 1995, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Emlong 1966, Fordyce 1982, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Geisler et al. 2011, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Mchedlidze 1976, Orr and Miller 1983, Sanders et al. 1982, Tsai and Ando 2015, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Aetiocetus polydentatus, Aetiocetus weltoni
Type specimen: USNM 25210, a partial skeleton (skull and partial skeleton). Its type locality is Deer Creek, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Yaquina Formation of Oregon.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (5: Oregon collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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