Isanacetus laticephalus Kimura and Ozawa 2002 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: T. Kimura and T. Ozawa. 2002. A new cetothere (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the early Miocene of Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):684-702

Belongs to Isanacetus according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015

See also Bisconti et al. 2013, Kimura and Ozawa 2002, Marx 2011, Tanaka et al. 2024 and Tanaka et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MFM 28501, a skeleton (skull & skeleton). Its type locality is Oyamada-mura, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Japan (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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