Pachyacanthus

Pachyacanthus
Temporal range: Miocene-Pliocene, 15.97–2.588 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Platanistidae
Genus: †Pachyacanthus
Brandt, 1871
Species:
†P. suessi
Binomial name
†Pachyacanthus suessi
Brandt, 1871

Pachyacanthus is an extinct genus of toothed whale that lived about 15.97 to 2.589 million years ago (Miocene and Pliocene). It contains the single species Pachyacanthus suessi. The genus is known from European deposits in Hungary, Kazakhstan, Austria and Italy.[1][2] The type specimen consisted of a few fragments of a rostrum and two fragmentary tympanic bullae. Skeletons from the Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) of Austria did not include skulls.[3]

  1. ^ "†Pachyacanthus suessii Brandt 1871 (toothed whale)". The Paleotological database (PBDB).
  2. ^ Domning, Daryl P. (10 Jan 2009). "The readaptation of Eocene sirenians to life in water". Historical Biology. 14, 2000 (1–2): 115–119. doi:10.1080/10292380009380559. S2CID 86603486.
  3. ^ "Revision of the genus Pachyacanthus Brandt, 1871 (Mammalia: Cetacea: Odontoceti)". Docplayer.