†Atlanticetus lavei Bisconti et al. 2021 (whale)
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Full reference: M. Bisconti, P. Damarco, S. Mao, M. Pavia, and G. Carnevale. 2021. The earliest baleen whale from the Mediterranean: large‐scale implications of an early Miocene thalassotherian mysticete from Piedmont, Italy. Papers in Palaeontology 7(2):1147-1166
Belongs to Atlanticetus according to M. Bisconti et al. 2021
Sister taxon: Atlanticetus patulus
Type specimen: MPTA 13301, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Moleto, near, which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian marine sandstone in Italy.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Moleto, near
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