Babiacetus is an extinct genus of early cetacean that lived during the late Lutetian middle Eocene of India (). It was named after its type locality, the Harudi Formation in the Babia Hills (: paleocoordinates ), Kutch District, Gujarat, India.
Babiacetus is an extinct genus of early cetacean that lived during the late Lutetian middle Eocene of India (). It was named after its type locality, the Harudi Formation in the Babia Hills (: paleocoordinates ), Kutch District, Gujarat, India.
== Discovery == Babiacetus was named by in an abstract based on the specimen's type (GSI 19647, left and right dentaries with cheek teeth). Gingerich and colleagues found a skull (GSP-UM 3005, much of a skull and lower jaws) while collecting a skeleton of a new species of Protosiren (Protosiren sattaensis) in the Drazinda Formation (, paleocoordinates ) in the Sulaiman Range of Punjab, Pakistan. described both the original find and their new specimen. described B. mishrai from the specimen (RUSB 2512, a partial skull) collected in the Harudi Formation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).