Idiocetus
Sign in to saveIdiocetus ("unique whale") is a genus of extinct cetaceans of the family Balaenidae.
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Vinony files it under Baleen whales, Fossil taxa described in 1876 and Miocene cetaceans.
Its subject is documented across 3 Wikipedia language editions.
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Idiocetus ("unique whale") is a genus of extinct cetaceans of the family Balaenidae.
==Discovery== Fossils belonging to this genus were first found in Piacenzian (Upper Pliocene) strata near Montopoli in Val d'Arno, a town in Tuscany (central Italy). The Italian paleontologist Giovanni Capellini described the whale in 1876 and attributed it to a new genus and species, establishing the type species Idiocetus guicciardinii. Some decades later, in 1926, other fossil remains possibly belonging to the genus were discovered from the Tortonian (Upper Miocene) of Japan.
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