Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: A. E. Sanders and L. G. Barnes. 2002. Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:313-356
Belongs to Eomysticetus according to C.-H. Tsai and N. Kohno 2017
See also Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Sanders and Barnes 2002 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Eomysticetus whitmorei
Type specimen: ChM PV4845, a partial skull. Its type locality is Dorchester Creek, which is in a Chattian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal sandstone in the Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Dorchester Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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