Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae
Full reference: L. S. Russell. 1968. A new cetacean from the Oligocene Sooke Formation of Vancouver Island, British Colombia. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 5:929-933
Belongs to Chonecetus according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Barnes et al. 1995, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Hernández Cisneros and Velez-Juarbe 2024, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Russell 1968, Sanders et al. 1982, Tsai and Ando 2015, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Chonecetus tomitai
Type specimen: NMC VP12095, a skull. Its type locality is Carmanah Creek, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Sooke Formation of Canada.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Carmanah Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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