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Ambulocetus (Latin ambulare "to walk" + cetus "whale") is a genus of early amphibious cetacean [a] from the Kuldana Formation in Pakistan, roughly 48 or 47 million years ago during the Early Eocene . It contains one species , Ambulocetus natans (Latin natans "swimming"), known solely from a near-complete skeleton.
Ambulocetidae is a family of early cetaceans from Pakistan.The genus Ambulocetus, after which the family is named, is by far the most complete and well-known ambulocetid genus due to the excavation of an 80% complete specimen of Ambulocetus natans. [2]
The size of a male sea lion, it had a large head with a long snout and robust, strongly worn teeth. The lower jaw shows that Ambulocetus had an unusual soft tissue connecting the back of the jaw to the middle ear — a small equivalent to the large sound-receiving fat pad in modern odontocetes. Its eyes were placed dorsally on the head, but ...
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Himalayacetus Temporal range: Early Eocene, 53.5 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: † Ambulocetidae Genus: † Himalayacetus Bajpai & Gingerich, 1998 Species: † H. subathuensis Binomial name † Himalayacetus subathuensis Bajpai & Gingerich ...
Ambulocetus probably had a long, broad, and powerful snout, and eyes near the top of the head. It may have hunted like a crocodile, waiting near the water's surface and ambushing large mammals, using the jaws to clamp onto and drown or thrash prey.
Drawing showing the size of Remingtonocetus (scale in meters). Remingtonocetus was a small cetacean with R. harudiensis weighing 198–576 kg (437–1,270 lb). [5] Gingerich et al. 2001 interpreted R. domandaensis as an older and more generalized species than R. harudiensis.
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