Biology:Bartoncetus
Bartoncetus is a genus of extinct archaeocete ceteceans belonging to the Basilosauridae that is known from the Late Eocene of Europe.
Taxonomy
In 1876, Harry Seeley described a skull found in the Wanklyn's Barton Cliff in the United Kingdom as a new species of Zeuglodon, Z. wanklyni.[1] This specimen, however, went missing after its description, but Z. wanklyni was referred to as Zygorhiza wanklyni by Kellogg (1936) or to as a nomen dubium.[2] In 2022, Gingerich and colleagues suggested that the lost skull possibly belongs to Pachycetus.[3] van Vliet et al. (2026) redescribed the taxon as a new genus of dorudontine basilosaurid, Bartoncetus, based on a postcranial specimen and Seeley's description of the holotype skull.[4]
References
- ↑ Seeley, H.G. (1876). "Notice of the occurrence of remains of a British fossil Zeuglodon (Z. wanklyni, Seeley) in the Barton Clay of the Hampshire Coast". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 32 (1–4): 428–432. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1876.032.01-04.47.
- ↑ Uhen, M.D. (1998). "Middle to Late Eocene Basilosaurines and Dorudontines". in Thewissen, J.G.M.. The Emergence of Whales. Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology. 1. pp. 29–61. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0159-0_2. ISBN 978-1-4899-0161-3.
- ↑ Gingerich, P.D.; Amane, A.; Zouhri, S. (2022). "Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco". PLOS ONE 17 (10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0276110. PMID 36288346. Bibcode: 2022PLoSO..1776110G.
- ↑ van Vliet, H.J.; Hakkens, J.; Paijmans, T.M.; Underwood, C.J.; Verheijen, I.; Bosselaers, M.E.J.; Ward, D.J.; Munsterman, D.K. et al. (2026). "Bartoncetus wanklyni, new genus of a small dorudontine whale from the Bartonian of England; a lost skull and a forgotten postcranial skeleton". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 137 (4). doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101201.
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