Mammalia - Cetacea - Mystacodontidae
Full reference: O. Lambert, M. Martínez-Cáeres, G. Bianucci, E. Steurbaut, M. Urbina and C. Muizon. 2017. Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales. Current Biology 27:17
Belongs to Mystacodon according to C. de Muizon et al. 2019
See also Fordyce and Marx 2018 and Lambert et al. 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MUSM 1917, a partial skeleton ( cranium, mandibles, teeth, cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal vertebrae, ribs, partial right and left forelimbs, and left innominate). Its type locality is Playa Media Luna, Priabonian, which is in a Priabonian deep-water siltstone in the Yumaque Formation of Peru.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Playa Media Luna, Priabonian
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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