Mammalia - Cetacea - Pakicetidae
Alternative spelling: Pakicetinae
Full reference: J. G. M. Thewissen, S. I. Madar, and S. T. Hussain. 1996. Ambulocetus natans, and Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from Pakistan. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 191:1-86
Parent taxon: Cetacea according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Boisserie et al. 2005, Cooper et al. 2009, Fordyce 2003, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Gao and Ni 2015, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Gingerich 2012, Gingerich and Russell 1990, McKenna and Bell 1997, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Thewissen and Hussain 1998, Thewissen et al. 1996, Thewissen et al. 2001, Thewissen et al. 2001, Uhen 2010 and van Vliet 2004
Sister taxa: Ambulocetidae, Anarnak, Anodontocete, Archaeocetus, Argyrocetidae, Balaenodea, Balaenodontae, Balaenoidorum, Berardiopsis miocaenus, Berardiopsis pliocaenus, Canis primigenius, Cetotheriomorphus dubius, Cetotherium priscum, Cetotolites, Globicephalus eocaenus, Halicore maximovitschii, Loncodelphis, Manatus giganteus, Mystacoceta, Nanisocetus, Neoballaenidae, Odontocetoidea, Otaria leclercii, Oxypterus, Palaeocetus, Pelagiceti, Procetus, Proteroceta, Protocetidae, Protocetoidea, Remingtonocetidae, Remingtonocetoidea, Rhynchoceti, Tretosphrys, Zeugloceta, Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis, Balanadae
Subtaxa: Himalayacetus Ichthyolestes Nalacetus Pakicetus
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
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