Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Alternative spelling: Procetus

Full reference: E. Fraas. 1904. Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem Unteren Mitteleocän vom Mokattam bei Cairo. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 6(3):199-220

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

See also Abel 1914, Abel 1919, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014, Gao and Ni 2015, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2012, Gingerich and Russell 1990, Gingerich et al. 2005, Kellogg 1928, Kellogg 1936, McKenna and Bell 1997, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Miller 1923, Sahni and Mishra 1975, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Slijper 1936, Stromer 1908, Thewissen et al. 1996, Uhen 2001, Uhen 2014, Uhen et al. 2011, van Vliet 2004, West 1980, Winge 1921 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxa: Aegyptocetus, Artiocetus, Babiacetus, Carolinacetus, Crenatocetus, Dhedacetus, Eocetus, Gaviacetus, Georgiacetinae, Georgiacetus, Indocetinae, Indocetus, Kharodacetus, Maiacetus, Makaracetinae, Makaracetus, Natchitochia, Pappocetinae, Pappocetus, Peregocetus, Phiomicetus, Pontobasileus, Protocetinae, Qaisracetus, Rodhocetus, Takracetus, Togocetus, Tupelocetus

Subtaxa: Protocetus atavus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gebel Mokattam, lower (Eocene of Egypt)

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