Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Alternative combination: Morawanocetus yabukii

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, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce and Marx 2018, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Tsai and Ando 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017

Sister taxa: Chonecetus sookensis, Chonecetus tomitai

Type specimen: AMP 1, a skull. Its type locality is Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member), which is in a Chattian basinal (siliceous) siltstone in the Morawan Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.