Aglaocetus Kellogg 1934 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: R. Kellogg. 1934. The Patagonian Fossil Whalebone Whale, Cetotherium moreni (Lydekker). Carnegie Institution of Washington 447:64-81

Parent taxon: Balaenopteroidea according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015

See also Barnes 1977, Berta 2017, Bisconti et al. 2013, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Carroll 1988, Cozzuol 1996, Gottfried et al. 1994, Kellogg 1968, McKenna and Bell 1997, Otsuka and Ota 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Steeman 2007, Steeman 2010, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Barnes 2008

Sister taxa: Amphicetus, Diorocetus, Eschrichtiidae, Mauicetus, Panbalaenopteroidea, Physalidae, Tiphyocetus, Uranocetus

Subtaxa: Aglaocetus latifrons Aglaocetus longifrons Aglaocetus moreni Aglaocetus rotundus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (2 collections), Belgium (4), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), United States (1: Maryland)

Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences

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