Aegyptocetus
Sign in to saveAegyptocetus is an extinct genus of protocetid archaeocete whale known from Egypt.
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It is catalogued under topics including Eocene mammals of Africa, Fossil taxa described in 2011 and Monotypic prehistoric cetacean genera.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Aegyptocetus is an extinct genus of protocetid archaeocete whale known from Egypt.
==Taxonomy== thumb|240px|left|The holotype MSNTUP I-15459 of Aegyptocetus tarfa Aegyptocetus is known from the articulated holotype MSNTUP I-15459, an almost complete cranium, lower jaws (with teeth) and a partial postcranial skeleton (cervical and thoracic vertebrae and ribs). The specimen was recovered when marbleized limestone was imported commercially to Italy. It was collected in the Khashm el-Raqaba limestone quarry (, paleocoordinates ) from the Gebel Hof Formation on the northern flank of Wadi Tarfa in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, dating to the late Mokattamian age of the middle Eocene, about . Its cause of death may have been an attack by a large shark as pattern of shark tooth marks preserved on the ribs.
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