Ichthyolestes pinfoldi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Pakicetidae

Full reference: R. Dehm and T. Oettingen-Spielberg. 1958. Paläontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Tertiär von Pakistan. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathewmatisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 91:1-54

Belongs to Ichthyolestes according to P. D. Gingerich et al. 2017

See also Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958, Kumar and Sahni 1985, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Szalay and Gould 1966, Thewissen and Hussain 1998, Thewissen et al. 2001 and van Vliet 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IPHG 1956 II 7, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Ganda Kas, which is in a Lutetian marine mudstone in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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