Ferecetotherium Mchedlidze 1970 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: G. A. Mchedlidze. 1970. Nekotorye obschie cherty istorii kitoobraznykh. Chast I 1-111

Parent taxon: Physeteroidea according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Barnes 1985, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Kazár 2002, Mchedlidze 1970, Mchedlidze 1976, Mchedlidze 2007, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Uhen 2008 and Whitmore and Sanders 1977

Sister taxa: Acrophyseter, Albicetus, Angelocetus, Brygmophyseter, Cozzuoliphyseter, Eudelphis, Hoplocetus, Kogiidae, Livyatan, Miophyseter, Physeterida, Physeteridae, Preaulophyseter, Rhaphicetus, Scaldicetus, Zygophyseter

Subtaxa: Ferecetotherium kelloggi

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Perekishkyul (Oligocene of Azerbaijan)

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