Patriocetus kazakhstanicus, Whale skull
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Description:
A cast (of six fragments) of a holotype skull associated with odontocete whale (Patriocetus kazakhstanicus) remains.
Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (PIN 3068).
- Site: Kazakhstan; Mangyshlak Peninsula
- Site Number: NH105A
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: TBD
- Genus: Patriocetus
- Species: Patriocetus kazakhstanicus
- Formation: Karaginskaya
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV4862
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