Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae
Alternative combination: Morawanocetus yabukii
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
Belongs to Chonecetus according to C. M. Peredo and N. D. Pyenson 2018
See also Barnes et al. 1995, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce and Marx 2018, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Tsai and Ando 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Chonecetus sookensis, Chonecetus tomitai
Type specimen: AMP 1, a skull. Its type locality is Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member), which is in a Chattian basinal (siliceous) siltstone in the Morawan Formation of Japan.
Distribution: found only at Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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