Kurdalagonus maicopicus Spasski 1951 (whale)

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

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