Pinocetus Czyzewska and Ryziewicz 1976 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: T. Czyzewska and Z. Ryziewicz. 1976. Pinocetus polonicus gen. n. sp. n. (Cetacea) from the Miocene limestones of Pinczow, Poland. Palaeontologica Polonica 21(3):259-298

Parent taxon: Cetotherioidea according to P. Gol'din and M. E. Steeman 2015

See also Berta 2017, Czyzewska and Ryziewicz 1976, Gol'din 2018, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Steeman 2007 and Whitmore and Barnes 2008

Sister taxa: Otradnocetus, Parietobalaena

Subtaxa: Pinocetus polonicus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nowa Wies (Miocene of Poland)

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