Dorudon is a genus of extinct basilosaurid ancient whales that lived alongside Basilosaurus 41.03 to 33.9 million years ago in the Eocene. It was a small whale, with D. atrox measuring 5 metres long a
Dorudon atrox Senckenberg
Virtually complete Dorudon atrox skeleton excavated at Wadi El Hitan, displayed at the University of Michigan museum
Dorudon hind limbs, at Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.
Cetaceans are marine mammals belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, a secondarily aquatic clade under the order Artiodactyla that include whales, dolphins, porpoises and extinct groups such as Basilosau
Dorudon
…Senckenberg Museum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: †Basilosauridae Subfamily: †Dorudontinae Genus: †Dorudon Gibbes 1845 Species Dorudon atrox Andrews 1906 Dorudon serratus (type) Gibbes 1845…
Mother and baby sperm whale