Cynthiacetus
Sign in to saveCynthiacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale that lived during the Late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian, .) Specimens have been found in the southeastern United States and Peru (Otuma Formation).
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- Parent taxon
- Basilosauridae
- Image
- Cynthiacetus squelette.jpg
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- taxon author citation
- Uhen, 2005
- taxon name
- Cynthiacetus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cynthiacetus
- start time
- 40400000-0
- end time
- 33900000-0
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Cynthiacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale that lived during the Late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian, .) Specimens have been found in the southeastern United States and Peru (Otuma Formation).
== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Skull of C. peruvianus at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle|MNHN, Paris Cynthiacetus was named after the town of Cynthia, Mississippi, close to where the type specimen for the species C. maxwelli was discovered.
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