Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: Y. Okazaki. 2012. A new mysticete form the upper Oligocene Ashiya Group, Kyushu, Japan and its significance to mysticete evolution. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History) 10:129-152
Parent taxon: Eomysticetidae according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, Okazaki 2012 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Echericetus, Eomysticetus, Matapanui, Micromysticetus, Tokarahia, Waharoa
Subtaxa: Yamatocetus canaliculatus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Japan (1 collection), New Zealand (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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