Remingtonocetus

Taxobox
name = "Remingtonocetus"
fossil_range = Middle Eocene

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image_width = 285px
image_caption =Life restoration of "Remingtonocetus harudiniensis".
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Cetacea
subordo = Archaeoceti
familia = Remingtonocetidae
genus = "Remingtonocetus"
genus_authority=Kumar and Sahni, 1986
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"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.

ources

* "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

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=36838 "Remingtonocetus"] in the Paleobiology Database