Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Belongs to Squalodon according to R. Kellogg 1923
See also Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874 and Trouessart 1898
Sister taxa: Phoca pedronii, Priscodelphinus validus, Squalodon antverpiensis, Squalodon barbarus, Squalodon bariensis, Squalodon bellunensis, Squalodon bordae, Squalodon calvertensis, Squalodon catulli, Squalodon dalpiazi, Squalodon grateloupii, Squalodon hypsispondylus, Squalodon imperator, Squalodon linzianus, Squalodon melitensis, Squalodon mirabilis, Squalodon molassicus, Squalodon murdochi, Squalodon peregrinus, Squalodon quaternarium, Squalodon rugidens, Squalodon servatus, Squalodon vocontiorum, Squalodon whitmorei, Squalodon zitteli, Rhytisodon tuberculatus, Trirhizodon suessii, Trirhizodon gervaisii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltringen, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in Germany
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Baltringen
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