Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Full reference: P. D. Gingerich, A. Amane, and S. Zouhri. 2022. Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. PLoS One 17(10):e0276110
Parent taxon: Basilosauridae according to H. J. van Vliet et al. 2024
See also Gingerich et al. 2022 and van Vliet et al. 2023
Sister taxa: Ancalecetus, Balaenoptera juddi, Basilosaurinae, Basilosaurus, Basiloterus, Chrysocetus, Cynthiacetus, Dorudon, Dorudontinae, Masracetus, Ocucajea, Pachycetus humilis, Perucetus, Pontogeneus, Pontogeneus brachyspondylus, Saghacetus, Stromeriinae, Stromerius, Sulaimanitherium, Supayacetus, Tutcetus, Zygorhiza
Subtaxa: Antaecetus Pachycetus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Eocene of Egypt (2), Germany (8), the Netherlands (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (14), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: North Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (4)
Total: 42 collections including 47 occurrences