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Italiano: Photo of lumbar vertebra from the fossil cetacean Basilotritus (USNM 310633) in lateral (A) and ventral view (B). Scale bar = 10 cm. Compare the overall shape of the vertebral body, anteroposterior length of the transverse processes, and the distinctive pock-marked texture of the bone to the specimen in Figure 2. Arrows point to individual pockmarks on the bone surface.

This specimen (USNM 310633) was originally described as a protocetid and named Eocetus wardii by Mark Uhen 1999.[1]It was re-classified in 2013 to a new genus of basilosaurid, Basilotritus.[2]

References

  1. Uhen M. (1999). "New Species of Protocetid Archaeocete Whale, Eocetus wardii (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene of North Carolina". Journal of Paleontology 73(3): p. 512-528
  2. Gol'din P & Zvonok E.A. (2013). "Basilotritus uheni, a New Cetacean (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Late Middle Eocene of Eastern Europe". Journal of Paleontology 87(2): p. 254-268
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Source First record of the archaeocete whale family Protocetidae from Europe. Fossil Record 11 (2) 2008, 57–60 / DOI 10.1002/mmng.200800001
Author Mark D. Uhen and Hans-J�rgen Berndt

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