Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and L. G. Barnes. 2008. The Herpetocetinae, a new subfamily of extinct baleen whales (Mammalia, Cetacea, Cetotheriidae). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:141-180
Belongs to Herpetocetus according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Bisconti et al. 2013, Boessenecker 2013, El Adli et al. 2014, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Steeman 2010, Tanaka et al. 2018 and Whitmore and Barnes 2008
Sister taxa: Herpetocetus morrowi, Herpetocetus scaldiensis, Herpetocetus sendaicus, Herpetocetus transatlanticus, Mizuhoptera kanayaensis, Mizuhoptera fujinensis
Type specimen: UCMP 82465, a partial skull (left half of a braincase). Its type locality is Opal Cliffs 1, which is in a Messinian/Zanclean open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Purisima Formation of California.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Miocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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