Cetotherium capellinii Brandt 1873 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

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 Cetotherium according to P. Cuscani Politi 1961

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is San Lorenzo in Collina, which is in a Zanclean/Piacenzian shallow subtidal claystone in Italy

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Italy (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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