Mammalia - Cetacea - Llanocetidae
Full reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1989. A new cetacean from the late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46(12):2219-2235
Belongs to Llanocetus according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Buono et al. 2019, Cozzuol 1996, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Fordyce and Marx 2018, Marx et al. 2019, Mitchell 1989 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 183022, a partial skull. Its type locality is La Meseta Seymour Island, Unit III, which is in a Priabonian lagoonal sandstone in the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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