Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1884. Une baleine fossile de Croatie, appartenant au genre Mesocete. Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 45:1-29
Belongs to Mesocetus according to P. Gol'din and P. Radoviç 2018
See also Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden 1884
Sister taxa: Mesocetus aquitanicus, Mesocetus hungaricus, Mesocetus longirostris, Mesocetus pinguis, Mesocetus siphunculus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Podsused, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in Croatia
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (4 collections), Croatia (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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