ammonites
Mesocetus aquitanicus Flot 1896 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: L. Flot. 1896. Not sure les Cetaces fossiles de l Aquitaine. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 24(3):270-282

Belongs to Mesocetus according to E. L. Trouessart 1904

Sister taxa: Aetiocetidae, Aetiocetoidea, Balaenoptera cortesii portisii, Cetotherioidea, Cetotheriopsis, Chaeomysticeti, Eomysticetidae, Llanocetidae, Mammalodontidae, Mauicetus, Physalidae, Pterobalaenidae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dax, near, which is in a Neogene marine horizon in France

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder