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
Belongs to Yamatocetus according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Okazaki 2012 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: KMNH VP 000.017, a partial skeleton (skull and skeleton). Its type locality is Kitakyushu City, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Jinnobaru Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Kitakyushu City
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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