Atlanticetus

Atlanticetus is a genus of extinct baleen whales known from the Early Miocene of Italy and the US Eastern Seaboard.^[1][2]

Atlanticetus Temporal range: Early Miocene ~20.4–16 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
A. patulus skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Parvorder:	Mysticeti
Clade:	Chaeomysticeti
Genus:	†Atlanticetus Bisconti et al., 2020
Type species
†Aglaocetus patulus Kellogg, 1968
Species
†A. patulus (Kellogg, 1968) (type) †A. lavei Bisconti et al., 2020

Species

The type species, Atlanticetus patulus was originally described as Aglaocetus patulus from the Calvert Formation by Remington Kellogg in 1968.^[3] However, it was recovered by Bisconti et al. (2013) in a different phylogenetic position than the Aglaocetus type species Aglaocetus moreni.^[1] In 2020, A. patulus was made the type species of a new genus Atlanticetus. A second species, A. lavei, is known from the early Miocene Gruppo Pietra da Cantoni of Piedmont, Italy.^[2]