Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Full reference: F. G. Marx, C.-H. Tsai, and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. A new Early Oligocene toothed ‘baleen’ whale (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae) from western North America: one of the oldest and the smallest. Royal Society Open Science 2(12):150476

Belongs to Fucaia according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018

See also Fordyce and Marx 2016, Hernández Cisneros and Velez-Juarbe 2024, Marx et al. 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017

Sister taxa: Fucaia goedertorum, Fucaia humilis

Type specimen: UWBM 84024, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Bullman Creek, which is in a Rupelian marine siltstone in the Makah Formation of Washington.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bullman Creek

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.