Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Alternative combination: Kurdalagonus adygeicus

Full reference: K. K. Tarasenko and A. V. Lopatin. 2012. New Baleen Whale Genera (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of the Northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 1. Kurdalagonus gen. nov. from the Middle–Late Sarmatian of Adygea. Paleontological Journal 46(5):531-542

Belongs to Mithridatocetus according to P. Goldin and D. Startsev 2017

See also Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012

Sister taxa: Cetotherium mayeri, Mithridatocetus eichwaldi

Type specimen: NMRA 10623/3, a partial skull (2 braincase fragments). Its type locality is HEPS, which is in a Tortonian deep-water siltstone in the Blinovo Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at HEPS

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