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, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Russell 1968, Sanders et al. 1982, Tsai and Ando 2015, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Chonecetus tomitai, Chonecetus yabukii
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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