Mammalia - Cetacea - Ambulocetidae
Full reference: J. G. M. Thewissen, S. I. Madar, and S. T. Hussain. 1996. Ambulocetus natans, and Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from Pakistan. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 191:1-86
Parent taxon: Cetacea according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Fordyce 2003, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Gao and Ni 2015, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Gingerich 2012, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Thewissen et al. 1996, Thewissen et al. 2001, Thewissen et al. 2001, Uhen 2010 and van Vliet 2004
Sister taxa: Anarnak, Anodontocete, Archaeoceti, Archaeocetus, Argyrocetidae, Balaenodea, Balaenodontae, Balaenoidorum, Berardiopsis miocaenus, Berardiopsis pliocaenus, Canis primigenius, Cetotheriomorphus dubius, Cetotherium priscum, Cetotolites, Globicephalus eocaenus, Halicore maximovitschii, Loncodelphis, Manatus giganteus, Mystacoceta, Nanisocetus, Neoballaenidae, Odontocetoidea, Otaria leclercii, Oxypterus, Pakicetidae, Palaeocetus, Pelagiceti, Procetus, Proteroceta, Protocetidae, Protocetoidea, Remingtonocetidae, Remingtonocetoidea, Rhynchoceti, Tretosphrys, Zeugloceta, Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis, Balanadae
Subtaxa: Ambulocetus Gandakasia
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence