Remingtonocetidae
| Remingtonocetidae | ||||||||||||
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Life picture of Kutchicetus |
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| Eocene | ||||||||||||
| 49 to 43 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Remingtonocetidae | ||||||||||||
| Kumar & Sahni , 1986 | ||||||||||||
The Remingtonocetidae are a group of extinct mammals from the tribe of whales (Cetacea) from the Eocene (49 to 43 million years ago) whose fossils were found in India and Pakistan . They include the genera Andrewsiphius , Attockicetus , Dalanistes , Kutchicetus and Remingtonocetus .
The representatives of the Remingtonocetidae probably lived amphibiously , hunting for fish with their long snouts in the manner of today's otters . They were better adapted to aquatic life than the Ambulocetidae .
Their small eyes and widely spaced ears suggest that they used their ears to orient themselves underwater.
literature
- Sunil Bajpai, JGM Thewissen: A new, diminutive Eocene whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution of cetaceans. In: Current Science. 79, 10, 2000, ISSN 0011-3891 , pp. 1478-1482, online (PDF; 176 kB) .
Web links
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