Brabocetus, Colpaert, Bosselaers & Lambert, 2015

Colpaert, Wouter, Bosselaers, Mark & Lambert, Olivier, 2015, Out of the Pacific: A second fossil porpoise from the Pliocene of the North Sea Basin, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (1), pp. 1-10 : 2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00115.2014

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:79DEA951-9785-4515-BA52-5684BA822F37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10989427

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A6740C2F-FFFA-FFB7-FCF9-FB9FEEEFFB09

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scientific name

Brabocetus
status

 

Genus Brabocetus nov.

Type species: Brabocetus gigaseorum sp. nov., monotypic, see below.

Etymology: From Silvius Brabo, a mythical character who liberated the city of Antwerp from the giant Antigoon, and Latin cetus, whale.

Diagnosis.—Same as for the only included species, B. gigaseorum .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

SubOrder

Odontoceti

InfraOrder

Delphinida

SuperFamily

Delphinoidea

Family

Phocoenidae

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