Angelocetus cursiensis Peri et al. 2022 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: E. Peri, A. Collareta, G. Aringhieri, D. Carmella, L. M. Foresi and G. Bianucci. 2022. A new physeteroid cetacean from the Lower Miocene of southern Italy: CT imaging, retrodeformation, systematics and palaeobiology of a sperm whale from the Pietra leccese. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 61(2):187-206

Belongs to Angelocetus according to E. Peri et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MSNUP I-16954, a partial skull. Its type locality is Cursi, near, which is in a Burdigalian marine lime mudstone in Italy.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cursi, near

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