Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Alternative combination: Cetotherium rathkei
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1843. De cetotherio, novo balaenarum familiae genre in Rossia Meridionali ante aliquot annos effoso. Bulletin de La Classe Physico-Mathématique de L'Académie Impérial des Sciences de Saint Pétersberg 1(10-12):145-148
Belongs to Cetotherium according to P. Goldin and D. Startsev 2017
See also Abel 1938, Bisconti et al. 2013, Bouetel 2005, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Brandt 1843, Brandt 1873, Bronn 1853, Fordyce 2003, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Goldin and Startsev 2014, Goldin et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Kellogg 1968, Kimura and Ozawa 2002, Marx 2011, Marx et al. 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Pictet 1853, Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Cetotherium capellinii, Cetotherium crassangulum, Cetotherium furlongi, Cetotherium megalophysum, Cetotherium parvum, Cetotherium polyporum, Cetotherium riabinini
Type specimen: PIN 1840/1, a partial skull. Its type locality is Kertsch, which is in a Tortonian coastal limestone in Ukraine.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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