Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Aglaocetus moreni

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Cetotherium moreni was named by Lydekker (1894) [no specimen number listed in Lydekker ]. Its type specimen is MLP 5-14, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerro del Castillo, Trelew, which is in an Aquitanian/Burdigalian shallow subtidal sandstone in the Gaiman Formation of Argentina.

It was misspelled as Aglaocetus morenoi by Abel (1938); it was recombined as Aglaocetus moreni by Kellogg (1934), Kellogg (1942), Kellogg (1968), Cozzuol (1996), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Uhen et al. (2008), Steeman (2010), Marx (2011), Bisconti et al. (2013), Marx and Fordyce (2015).