Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Aulocetus sammarinensis, Titanocetus sammariensis
Full reference: G. Capellini. 1901. Balenottera Miocenica del Monte Titano Repubblica di S. Marino. Memorie della R. Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna 9:1-26
Belongs to Titanocetus according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Abel 1938, Bisconti 2006, Bisconti et al. 2013, Capellini 1901, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MGB 1CMC172 9073, a partial skeleton (skull, complete left dentary, anterior end of right dentary, atlas, axis, third and fourth cervical vertebrae, 9 fragmentary vertebrae and vertebral epiphyses, ). Its type locality is Luigi Reffi quarry, Monte Titano, which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Monte Fumaiolo Formation of San Marino.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Luigi Reffi quarry, Monte Titano
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