Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes, M. Kimura, H. Furusawa and H. Sawamura. 1995. Classification and distribution of Oligocene Aetiocetidae (Mammalia; Cetacea; Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan. The Island Arc 3(4):392-431

Parent taxon: Aetiocetidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Barnes et al. 1995, Berta 2017, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Hernández Cisneros and Velez-Juarbe 2024, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Peredo and Pyenson 2018, Tsai and Ando 2015, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen 2008

Sister taxa: Aetiocetinae, Aetiocetus, Ashorocetus, Chonecetinae, Chonecetus, Fucaia, Kaaucetus, Morawanocetinae, Salishicetus, Tohoraata, Willungacetus

Subtaxa: Morawanocetus yabukii

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member) (Oligocene of Japan)

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