Atlanticetus is a genus of extinct baleen whales known from the Early Miocene of Italy and the US Eastern Seaboard.[1][2]
| Atlanticetus Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| A. patulus skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
| Clade: | Chaeomysticeti |
| Genus: | †Atlanticetus Bisconti et al., 2020 |
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| †Aglaocetus patulus Kellogg, 1968
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Species
editThe type species, Atlanticetus patulus was originally described as Aglaocetus patulus from the Calvert Formation by Remington Kellogg in 1968.[3] However, it was recovered by Bisconti et al. (2013) in a different phylogenetic position than the Aglaocetus type species Aglaocetus moreni.[1] In 2020, A. patulus was made the type species of a new genus Atlanticetus. A second species, A. lavei, is known from the early Miocene Gruppo Pietra da Cantoni of Piedmont, Italy.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b M. Bisconti, O. Lambert, and M. Bosselaers. 2013. "Taxonomic revision of Isocetus depauwi (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic 'cetothere' mysticetes". Palaeontology 56(1):95-127.
- ^ a b Bisconti, M., Damarco, P., Mao, S., Pavia, M. and Carnevale, G. (2020). "The earliest baleen whale from the Mediterranean: large-scale implications of an early Miocene thalassotherian mysticete from Piedmont, Italy". Papers in Palaeontology. doi:10.1002/spp2.1336.
- ^ R. Kellogg. 1968. "A sharp-nosed cetothere from the Miocene Calvert". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 247(7):163-173.
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