Joumocetus
Name:
Joumocetus
(Joumo whale).
Phonetic: Joo-mo-see-tuss.
Named By: T. Kimura & Y. Hasegawa -
2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea,
Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae.
Species: J. shimizui (type).
Diet: Carnivore/filter feeder.
Size: Skull over 75.5 centimetres long.
Known locations: Japan, Gunma Prefecture -
Haraichi Formation.
Time period: Serravallian of the Miocene.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Joumocetus is a genus of whale that is known to have lived in the Pacific waters of what is now Japan during the Miocene.
Further reading
- A new baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae) from the
earliest late Miocene of Japan and a reconsideration of the phylogeny
of cetotheres. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
30(2):577-591. - T. Kimura & Y. Hasegawa -
2010.
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