Full reference: B. Du Bus. 1872. Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts 34:491-509
Belongs to Hoplocetus according to O. Hampe 2006
See also Abel 1905, Du Bus 1872, Lydekker 1887, Newton 1891, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Hoplocetus crassidens, Hoplocetus curvidens, Hoplocetus obesus, Hoplocetus ritzi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Borgerhout, Miocene, which is in a Tortonian/Messinian marine sandstone in the Sables d'Anvers Formation of Belgium
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Miocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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