Cetotherium polyporum Cope 1869

Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Balaenoptera polyporum, Cetotherium polyporus, Eschrichtius polyporus

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. [Remarks on Eschrichtius polyporus, Hypsibema crassicauda, Hadrosaurus tripos, and Polydectes biturgidus]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:191-192

Belongs to Cetotherium according to K. K. Tarasenko and A. V. Lopatin 2012

See also Abel 1938, Barnes and McLeod 1984, Cope 1870, Cope 1870, Cope 1875, Cope 1895, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Uhen et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Cetotherium capellinii, Cetotherium crassangulum, Cetotherium furlongi, Cetotherium megalophysum, Cetotherium parvum, Cetotherium rathkii, Cetotherium riabinini

Type specimen: ANSP 12694, a mandible (posterior mandible fragment). Its type locality is Bells Bridge, which is in a Pliocene shallow subtidal sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Distribution: found only at Bells Bridge

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