Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Alternative combination: Aetiocetus tomitai

Full reference: L. G. Barnes, M. Kimura, H. Furusawa and H. Sawamura. 1995. Classification and distribution of Oligocene Aetiocetidae (Mammalia; Cetacea; Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan. The Island Arc 3(4):392-431

Belongs to Chonecetus according to C. M. Peredo and N. D. Pyenson 2018

See also Barnes et al. 1995, Tsai and Ando 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017

Sister taxa: Chonecetus sookensis, Chonecetus yabukii

Type specimen: AMP 2, a partial skull. Its type locality is Morawan (Middle Hard Shale Member), which is in a Chattian basinal (siliceous) shale in the Morawan Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Morawan (Middle Hard Shale Member)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.