Mycteriacetus Lambert 2004 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Alternative spelling: Mycteracetus

Full reference: O. Lambert. 2004. Systematic revision of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Eurhinodelphis longirostris Du Bus, 1872. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 74:147-174

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

See also Berta 2017, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014 and Lambert 2004

Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Phocaenopsis, Schizodelphis, Vanbreenia, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis

Subtaxa: Mycteriacetus bellunensis

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Type: Mycteriacetus bellunensis

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Libano (Miocene of Italy)

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