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Supayacetus, the Glossary

Supayacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid cetacean from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian stage) Paracas Formation of Peru.^[1]

52 relations: Aegyptocetus, Ancalecetus, Antaecetus, Artiocetus, Babiacetus, Bartonian, Basilosauridae, Basilosaurus, Carolinacetus, Cetacea, Chrysocetus, Cynthiacetus, Dorudon, Eocene, Eocetus, Extinction, Gaviacetus, Genus, Georgiacetus, Holotype, Humboldt Current, Humerus, Kekenodontidae, Maiacetus, Molar (tooth), Monotypic taxon, Ocucajea, Pachycetinae, Pachycetus, Pakicetus, Peru, Peruvian anchoveta, Pisco Basin, Pontogeneus, Premolar, Protocetidae, Protocetus, Qaisracetus, Radius (bone), Remingtonocetidae, Rodhocetus, Saghacetus, Sardine, Scapula, Skeleton, Sternum, Supay, Tutcetus, Tympanic part of the temporal bone, Ulna, ... Expand index (2 more) »
Basilosauridae
Divisaderan
Paleogene Peru

Aegyptocetus

Aegyptocetus is an extinct genus of protocetid archaeocete whale known from Egypt. Supayacetus and Aegyptocetus are fossil taxa described in 2011 and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Ancalecetus (from Greek ankale, "bent arm", and ketos, "whale") is an extinct genus of early whale known from the Late Eocene (Priabonian) Birket Qarun Formation (paleocoordinates) in Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Supayacetus and Ancalecetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Antaecetus

Antaecetus is an extinct genus of pachycetine basilosaurid from the middle Eocene Aridal Formation of Morocco as well as the Fayum, Egypt. Supayacetus and Antaecetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Artiocetus

Artiocetus is an extinct genus of early whales belonging to the family Protocetidae. Supayacetus and Artiocetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Babiacetus

Babiacetus is an extinct genus of early cetacean that lived during the late Lutetian middle Eocene of India. Supayacetus and Babiacetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Bartonian

The Bartonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geologic time scale, a stage or age in the middle of the Eocene Epoch or Series.

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Basilosauridae

Basilosauridae is a family of extinct cetaceans.

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Basilosaurus

Basilosaurus (meaning "king lizard") is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). Supayacetus and Basilosaurus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Carolinacetus

Carolinacetus is an extinct protocetid early whale found in the Bartonian Tupelo Bay Formation (paleocoordinates) in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Supayacetus and Carolinacetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Chrysocetus

Chrysocetus (from Greek chrysous, "golden", and ketos, "whale", in reference to the gold-colored bones of the type specimen) is a genus of extinct early whale known from Late Eocene-aged fossils of the eastern United States and western Africa. Supayacetus and Chrysocetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Cynthiacetus

Cynthiacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale that lived during the Late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian,.) Specimens have been found in the southeastern United States and Peru (Otuma Formation). Supayacetus and Cynthiacetus are Basilosauridae, Eocene mammals of South America, fossils of Peru, Paleogene Peru and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Dorudon

Dorudon ("spear-tooth") is a genus of extinct basilosaurid ancient whales that lived alongside Basilosaurus 40.4 to 33.9 million years ago in the Eocene. Supayacetus and Dorudon are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Eocetus

Eocetus is an extinct protocetid early whale known from the early-late Eocene (Bartonian) Giushi Formation in Gebel Mokattam, (paleocoordinates) outside Cairo, Egypt. Supayacetus and Eocetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Gaviacetus

Gaviacetus (from Latin Gavia, "loon" and cetus, "whale") is an extinct archaeocete whale that lived approximately. Supayacetus and Gaviacetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Georgiacetus

Georgiacetus is an extinct genus of ancient whale known from the Eocene period of the United States. Supayacetus and Georgiacetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Humboldt Current

The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Kekenodontidae

Kekenodontidae is an extinct family of non-neocete pelagicetes from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.

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Maiacetus

Maiacetus ("mother whale") is a genus of early cetacean from the Habib Rahi Formation of Pakistan. Supayacetus and Maiacetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Ocucajea

Ocucajea is an extinct genus of basilosaurid cetacean from Middle Eocene (Bartonian stage) deposits of southern Peru. Supayacetus and Ocucajea are Basilosauridae, Divisaderan, Eocene mammals of South America, fossil taxa described in 2011, fossils of Peru, Paleogene Peru and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Pachycetinae

Pachycetinae is an extinct subfamily of basilosaurid cetaceans that lived during the middle Eocene. Supayacetus and Pachycetinae are Basilosauridae.

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Pachycetus

Pachycetus (meaning "thick whale") is an extinct genus of pachycetine basilosaurid from Middle Eocene of the eastern United States (North Carolina & Virginia) and Europe (chiefly Germany and Ukraine). Supayacetus and Pachycetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Pakicetus

Pakicetus is an extinct genus of amphibious cetacean of the family Pakicetidae, which was endemic to Pakistan during the Ypresian (early Eocene) period, roughly 50 million years ago. Supayacetus and Pakicetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Peruvian anchoveta

The Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) is a species of fish of the anchovy family, Engraulidae, from the Southeast Pacific Ocean.

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Pisco Basin

Pisco Basin (Cuenca de Pisco) is a sedimentary basin extending over in southwestern Peru. Supayacetus and Pisco Basin are Paleogene Peru.

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Pontogeneus

Pontogeneus (nomen dubium) is a genus of extinct cetacean known from fossils recovered from the Late Eocene sediments (Bartonian-Priabonian stages) of the southeastern United States (most notably Alabama and Florida). Supayacetus and Pontogeneus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Premolar

The premolars, also called premolar teeth, or bicuspids, are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth.

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Protocetidae

Protocetidae, the protocetids, form a diverse and heterogeneous group of extinct cetaceans known from Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

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Protocetus

Protocetus atavus ("first whale") is an extinct species of primitive cetacean from Egypt. Supayacetus and Protocetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Qaisracetus

Qaisracetus is an extinct protocetid early whale known from the Eocene (Lutetian) of Baluchistan, Pakistan (paleocoordinates). Supayacetus and Qaisracetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Remingtonocetidae

Remingtonocetidae is a diverse family of early aquatic mammals of the order Cetacea.

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Rodhocetus

Rodhocetus (from Rodho, the geological anticline at the type locality, and cetus, Latin for whale) is an extinct genus of protocetid early whale known from the Lutetian of Pakistan. Supayacetus and Rodhocetus are prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Saghacetus

Saghacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale, fossils of which have been found in the Upper Eocene (middle Priabonian) Qasr el Sagha Formation, Egypt (paleocoordinates). Supayacetus and Saghacetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Scapula

The scapula (scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone).

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Skeleton

A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals.

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Sternum

The sternum (sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest.

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Supay

In the Quechua, Aymara, and Inca mythologies, Supay was both the god of death and ruler of the Ukhu Pacha, the Incan underworld, as well as a race of demons.

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Tutcetus

Tutcetus is an extinct genus of diminutive basilosaurid cetacean from the Bartonian of Egypt. Supayacetus and Tutcetus are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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Tympanic part of the temporal bone

The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process, and surrounding the external part of the ear canal.

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Ulna

The ulna or ulnar bone (ulnae or ulnas) is a long bone in the forearm stretching from the elbow to the wrist.

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Underworld

The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living.

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Zygorhiza

Zygorhiza ("Yoke-Root") is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale known from the Late Eocene (Priabonian, 38–34 Ma) of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, United States, and the Bartonian (43–37 Ma on the New Zealand geologic time scale) to the late Eocene of New Zealand. Supayacetus and Zygorhiza are Basilosauridae and prehistoric cetacean genera.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supayacetus

Also known as Supayacetus muizoni.

, Underworld, Zygorhiza.

Supayacetus, the Glossary

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See also

Basilosauridae

Divisaderan

Paleogene Peru

References