Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: E. Vanden Broeck. 1874. Esquisse Geologique & paleontologique des depots Pliocenes des Environs d'Anvers. Memoires de la Societe Malacologiques de Belgique 9:87-374

Belongs to Plesiocetus according to O. Abel 1901

See also Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxa: Balaenoptera (Plesiocetus) cortesii, Plesiocetus brialmontii, Plesiocetus dubius, Plesiocetus giganteus, Plesiocetus intermedius, Plesiocetus notopelagicus, Plesiocetus rostratus, Plesiocetus tertius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sablesmoyens d'Anvers, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal sandstone in the Diest Formation of Belgium

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sablesmoyens d'Anvers

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