Alternative combination: Aulophyseter rionegrensis
Full reference: D. Gondar. 1974. La presencia de cetaceos Physteridae en el Terciario Superior ("Rionegrense") de la Provincia de Rio Negro. Actas del Primer Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia 2:349-356
Belongs to Cozzuoliphyseter according to F. Paolucci et al. 2021
See also Bianucci and Landini 2006, Gondar 1974, Kazár 2002, Lambert et al. 2008 and Perez et al. 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MLP 62-XII-19-1, a skull (skull and lower jaws with teeth). Its type locality is Rio Negro, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in Argentina.
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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