Drawing of Aegicetus skeleton in swimming position showing known remains in gold
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Infraorder:
Cetacea
Family:
†Protocetidae
Subfamily:
†Georgiacetinae
Genus:
†Aegicetus Gingerich et al., 2019
Species:
†A. gehennae
Binomial name
†Aegicetus gehennae
Gingerich et al., 2019
Aegicetus is an extinct genus of protocetid whale based on a partial skull with much of an associated postcranial skeleton discovered in Egypt.[1][2] It lived around 35 million years ago (during the Late Eocene), making it the youngest known protocetid to date.[3]Aegicetus was discovered in 2007 at Wadi El Hitan (Gehannam Formation) as a relatively complete skeleton and a partial second specimen. They were assigned to a new genus and species in 2019 by Philip D. Gingerich et al.[1][2][4]
^ abPhilip D. Gingerich, Mohammed Sameh M. Antar und Iyad S. Zalmot: "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming in whales". PLoS ONE14(12): e0225391 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225391
^ abPLOS ONE Staff (2020-03-12). "Correction: Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming in whales". PLOS ONE. 15 (3): e0230596. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1530596.. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230596. PMC 7067414. PMID 32163522.
^"New Eocene-Period Whale Unearthed in Egypt". SciNews. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
^"Newly described fossil whale represents intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming". University of Michigan News. Michigan, U.S.: University of Michigan. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
Aegicetus is an extinct genus of protocetid whale based on a partial skull with much of an associated postcranial skeleton discovered in Egypt. It lived...
foot-based mode of aquatic locomotion. The discovery of Aegicetus supports this notion. Genera: Aegicetus Babiacetus Carolinacetus Crenatocetus Georgiacetus...
indicating they could move on land. In other genera (Georgiacetus and Aegicetus), the pelvis was not connected to the vertebral column, suggesting the...
154 Philip D. Gingerich, Mohammed Sameh M. Antar und Iyad S. Zalmot: "Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi...
(or latest surviving) georgiacetine protocetids, along with the genus Aegicetus. Gibson, Matthew L.; Mnieckowski, John; Geisler, Jonathan H. (2018-11-02)...
Gingerich, Philip D.; Mohammed Sameh M. Antar, and Iyad S. Zalmout. 2019. Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi...
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