Tlaxcallicetus guaycurae Cisneros 2018 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: A. E. H. Cisneros. 2018. A new group of late Oligocene mysticetes from México. Palaeontologia Electronica 21(1.7A):1-30

Belongs to Tlaxcallicetus according to A. E. H. Cisneros 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MHN-UABCS_EcSj5/06/31, a partial skull (posterior skull). Its type locality is El Saladito, which is in a Chattian marine mudstone in the El Cien Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at El Saladito

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