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Eocetus drazindai

Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Taxonomy

Basilosaurus drazindai was named by Gingerich et al. (1997). Its type specimen is GSP-UM 3193, a set of vertebrae (one lumbar vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bari Nadi 4, which is in a Bartonian offshore shelf claystone in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.

It was recombined as Basiloterus drazindai by Uhen (2002); it was considered a nomen dubium by Uhen (2013); it was recombined as Eocetus drazindai by Gingerich and Zouhri (2015), van Vliet et al. (2019).

Year	Name and author
1997	Basilosaurus drazindai Gingerich et al.
1998	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen p. 33
2001	Basilosaurus drazindai Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1
2002	Basiloterus drazindai Uhen p. 79
2004	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen p. 12
2004	Basilosaurus drazindai van Vliet p. 143
2008	Basilosaurus drazindai McLeod and Barnes p. 94
2008	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen p. 561
2008	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen et al. p. 582
2009	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen p. 93
2011	Basilosaurus drazindai Schouten p. 18
2012	Basilosaurus drazindai Kalmykov p. 179
2013	Basilosaurus drazindai Goldin and Zvonok p. 263
2015	Eocetus drazindai Gingerich and Zouhri p. 282
2018	Basilosaurus drazindai Uhen p. 79
2019	Eocetus drazindai van Vliet et al. p. 109