Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Cetotherium maicopicum, Kurdalagonus maicopicum
Full reference: P. I. Spasski. 1951. Ostaki tsetoheriev iz Servernogo Kavkaza (okr. g. Maikopa) [Remains of cetotheria from the Northern Caucasus in the neighborhood of Maikop Town. Izvestia Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR 2:57-65
Belongs to Kurdalagonus according to K. K. Tarasenko and A. V. Lopatin 2012
See also Goldin and Startsev 2014, Goldin and Startsev 2017 and Pilleri 1986
Sister taxon: Kurdalagonus mchedlidzei
Type specimen: IBP S144, S131, S142, S154, S125, S126, S128, S130, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is River Belaia, which is in a Sarmatian lacustrine lime mudstone in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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