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Herpetocetus transatlanticus

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy

Herpetocetus transatlanticus was named by Whitmore and Barnes (2008) [Herpetocetus n. sp. of Whitmore 1994: 224, Table 1]. Its type specimen is USNM 182962, a partial skull (partial cranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation, which is in a Zanclean estuary/bay sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Year	Name and author
2008	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Whitmore and Barnes p. 153 figs. Figures 8-16
2008	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 242
2010	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Steeman p. 74
2011	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2013	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Bisconti et al. p. 121
2014	Herpetocetus transatlanticus El Adli et al. p. 404
2014	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Goldin and Startsev p. 419 figs. Figure 13
2015	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2016	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10
2018	Herpetocetus transatlanticus Tanaka et al. p. 302 figs. Table 2