Prosqualodon davidis Flynn 1923 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Alternative combination: Prosqualodon davidi

Full reference: T. T. Flynn. 1923. A whale of bygone days. Australian Museum Magazine 1:266-272

Belongs to Prosqualodon according to Y. Tanaka et al. 2023

See also Fitzgerald 2004, Flynn 1923, Flynn 1932, Flynn 1948, Fordyce 1991, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Geisler et al. 2011, Kellogg 1942 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxon: Prosqualodon australis

Type specimen: UTDG85542-85576, 85578-85603, a partial skeleton (partial skull and skeleton). Its type locality is PL3029 - Upper Bed, Table Cape, which is in an Aquitanian shoreface sandstone/siltstone in the Fossil Bluff Sandstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (1 collection)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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