Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Alternative combinations: Basilosaurus wanklyni, Zeuglodon wanklyni, Zygorhiza wanklyni
Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1876. Notice of the Occurrence of Remains of a British fossil zeuglodon (Z. wanklyni, Seeley) in the Barton Clay of the Hampshire Coast. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32:428-432
Belongs to Bartoncetus according to H. J. van Vliet et al. 2026
See also Abel 1914, Gingerich et al. 2022, Halstead and Middleton 1972, Hooker 1986, Kalmykov 2012, Kellogg 1936, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Seeley 1876, Stromer 1903, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen 1998, Zittel 1894 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH M. 11090, a skull. Its type locality is Barton Cliff, which is in a Bartonian marine claystone in the Barton Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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