Aglaocetus Temporal range:
Early-Late Miocene
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Superfamily: | Balaenopteroidea |
Family: | †
Aglaocetidae Steeman 2007 |
Genus: | †
Aglaocetus Kellogg 1934 |
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Aglaocetus is a genus of extinct baleen whales known from the Miocene of Patagonia, the US Eastern Seaboard, Japan and the Low Countries. It was once considered a member of Cetotheriidae along with many other putative cetotheres, but was recently recognized as representing a distinct family from true Cetotheriidae.
There are three currently recognized valid species: Aglaocetus moreni, A. latifrons, and A. rotundus. [1] [2] [3]
The type species, Aglaocetus moreni, was originally described as a species of Cetotherium, but later recognized as generically distinct from the latter. [4] "Aglaocetus" patulus, described from the Calvert Formation by Remington Kellogg in 1968, [5] was recovered by Bisconti et al. (2013) in a different phylogenetic position than the Aglaocetus type species. [6] In 2020, A. patulus was renamed Atlanticetus. [7]
Fossils of Aglaocetus have been found in: [8]