Aulophyseter
Appearance
Aulophyseter Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Superfamily: | Physeteroidea |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Aulophyseter Kellogg, 1927[1] |
Species | |
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Aulophyseter is an extinct genus of sperm whales from the Miocene formations of the west and east coasts of North America, as well as the Patagonian region of South America. It is a possible synonym of some fossils assigned to Orycterocetus.[citation needed]
Aulophyseter reached a length of approximately 6 metres (20 ft) with an estimated body weight of 1,100 kilograms (2,400 lb).[2]
Distribution
Fossils of Aulophyseter have been found in:[3]
Related species
See also
References
- ^ Remington, Kellogg (1927). "Study of the skull of a fossil sperm-whale from the Temblor Miocene of Southern California". Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington: 3–24.
- ^ R. Nieuwenhuys (1998) The central nervous system of vertebrates, Volume 1 p.2130
- ^ Aulophyseter at Fossilworks.org
- Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, and Eli C. Minkoff Pg.396.
- Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean by Hal Whitehead
- Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals by William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J. G.M. Thewissen
- Aulophyseter morricei
External links
Categories:
- Sperm whales
- Prehistoric toothed whales
- Prehistoric cetacean genera
- Miocene cetaceans
- Miocene mammals of Asia
- Neogene Japan
- Fossils of Japan
- Miocene mammals of North America
- Neogene United States
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Montehermosan
- Huayquerian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1927
- Prehistoric cetacean stubs