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, Hernández Cisneros and Velez-Juarbe 2024, Marx 2011, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Tsai and Ando 2015 and Tsai and Kohno 2017

Sister taxa: Aetiocetus cotylalveus, Aetiocetus palmadentis, 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)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.