Remingtonocetus

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Remingtonocetus
Fossil range: Middle Eocene
Life restoration of Remingtonocetus harudiniensis.
Life restoration of Remingtonocetus harudiniensis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Suborder: Archaeoceti
Family: Remingtonocetidae
Genus: Remingtonocetus
Kumar and Sahni, 1986
Species
  • R. harudiensis Kumar and Sahni, 1986 (type)
  • R. domandaensis Gingerich et al., 2001

Remingtonocetus is an extinct genus of early whale. Two species have been described: the type species R. harudiensis, from the middle Eocene some 46-43 million years ago of India and Pakistan; and R. domandaensis, from the middle Eocene of Pakistan.

[edit] Sources

  • Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology by Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, and Kit M. Kovacs
  • The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose

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