Hoplocetus crassidens Gervais 1852 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+

Belongs to Hoplocetus according to O. Hampe 2006

See also Abel 1905, Bronn 1853, Depéret 1887, Depéret 1893, Hay 1902, Joleaud 1906, Kazár 2002, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Newton 1891, Paquier 1894, Pictet 1853, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxa: Hoplocetus borgerhoutensis, Hoplocetus curvidens, Hoplocetus obesus, Hoplocetus ritzi

Type specimen: no number, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Chamaret, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in France.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1)

• Miocene of France (1), Germany (1), Malta (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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