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
Belongs to Aetiocetus according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Barnes et al. 1995, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Tsai and Ando 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Aetiocetus cotylalveus, Aetiocetus weltoni
Type specimen: AMP 12, a partial skull. Its type locality is Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member), which is in a Chattian basinal (siliceous) siltstone in the Morawan Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Morawan (Upper tuffaceous Siltstone Member)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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