| Remingtonocetidae Fossil range: Eocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Archaeoceti |
| Family: | Remingtonocetidae Kumar and Sahni (1986) |
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Remingtonocetidae is a family of early carnivorous freshwater aquatic mammals of the order Cetacea endemic to the coastline of the ancient Tethys Ocean during the Eocene living from 55.8—48.6 mya, existing for approximately .[1]
Members of this family have 4 distinct and usable limbs. They would have shared their freshwater environment with members of ancient Crocodilia based upon distribution of both genera in aquatic environments.
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Taxonomy
Remingtonocetidae was named by Kumar and Sahni (1986).[2] It is the type family of Remingtonocetiodea. It was considered monophyletic by Uhen (2010). It was assigned to Odontoceti by Benton (1993); to Remingtonocetoidea by Mitchell (1989) and Rice (1998); to Archaeoceti by Bianucci and Landini (2007)[3]; to Archaeoceti by Kumar and Sahni (1986), Fordyce and Barnes (1994)[4], Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Gingerich et al. (2001), Gingerich et al. (2001), Fordyce (2003), Geisler and Sanders (2003) and McLeod and Barnes (2008)[5]; and to Cetacea by Thewissen et al. (2001)[6] and Uhen (2010).
Species
- Andrewsiphius
- Attockicetus
- Dalanistes
- Kutchicetus
- Remingtonocetus
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See also
References
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Remingtonocetidae, basic info
- ^ K. Kumar and A. Sahni. 1986. Remingtonocetus harudiensis, new combination, a middle Eocene archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from western Kutch, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(4):326-349
- ^ G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2007. Fossil History. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Cetacea 35-93
- ^ R. E. Fordyce and L. G. Barnes. 1994. The evolutionary history of whales and dolphins. Annual Review of Earth Planetary Sciences 22:419-455
- ^ S. A. McLeod and L. G. Barnes. 2008. A new genus and species of Eocene protocetid archaeocete whale (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Atlantic Coastal plain. Science Series, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 41:73-98
- ^ J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, and S.T. Hussain. 2001. Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):347-366
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