†Sachalinocetus cholmicus Siryk and Dubrovo 1970 (toothed whale)
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Full reference: I. M. Siryk and I. A. Dubrovo. 1970. Fossil whale in the Miocene sediments of southern Sakhalin. Geologiya i Geofizika 1970(9):123-129
Belongs to Sachalinocetus according to Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce 2014
See also Dubrovo 1971 and Fordyce 1994
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AH CCCP 2798/1-12, a partial skeleton (skull & partial skeleton). Its type locality is Sakhalin, which is in a Miocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sakhalin
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