Brabocetus, Colpaert, Bosselaers & Lambert, 2015

Colpaert, Wouter, Bosselaers, Mark & Lambert, Olivier, 2015, Out of the Pacific: A second fossil porpoise from the Pliocene of the North Sea Basin, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (1), pp. 1-10 : 2

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00115.2014
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:79DEA951-9785-4515-BA52-5684BA822F37
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10989427
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A6740C2F-FFFA-FFB7-FCF9-FB9FEEEFFB09
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Brabocetus
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Treatment

Genus Brabocetus nov.

Type species: Brabocetus gigaseorum sp. nov., monotypic, see below.

Etymology: From Silvius Brabo, a mythical character who liberated the city of Antwerp from the giant Antigoon, and Latin cetus, whale.

Diagnosis.—Same as for the only included species, B. gigaseorum .

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Phocoenidae

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