Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1883. Sur quelques ossements de cetaces fossiles, recuelillis dans des couches phosphatees entre l'Elbe et le Wesser. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des lettres et des Beaux-Arts 6:27-33
Belongs to Pachycetus according to H. J. van Vliet et al. 2025
See also Geinitz 1883, Gingerich et al. 2022, Kuhn 1935, Rothausen 1986, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen and Pyenson 2007, van Vliet 2004, van Vliet et al. 2020 and Wetmore 1940
Sister taxa: Pachycetus paulsonii, Pachycetus wardii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Helmstedt, which is in a Bartonian/Priabonian marine sandstone in the Gehlberg Formation of Germany
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cliffend, Middle Barton Beds, D, Hampshire
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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