Aetiocetus weltoni Barnes et al. 1995 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes, M. Kimura, H. Furusawa and H. Sawamura. 1995. Classification and distribution of Oligocene Aetiocetidae (Mammalia; Cetacea; Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan. The Island Arc 3(4):392-431

Belongs to Aetiocetus according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018

See also Barnes et al. 1995, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Tsai and Ando 2015, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Aetiocetus cotylalveus, Aetiocetus polydentatus

Type specimen: UCMP 122900, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Ona Beach, which is in a Chattian deltaic horizon in the Yaquina Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Ona Beach

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