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Pontobasileus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Infraorder
  
Cetacea

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Artiodactyla

Family
  
†Protocetidae

Pontobasileus is an archaeocete whale known from a fragment of a single tooth described by Leidy 1873. It can questionably be dated to the Eocene of Alabama.

Leidy assigned the tooth to Archaeoceti, but without neither a stratigraphic nor a geographic locality it is virtually impossible to argue for or against this classification. The tooth was later classified as an Archaeoceti incertae sedis and even a squalodont odontocete (a more recent whale), but can also be assigned to Protocetidae.

References

Pontobasileus Wikipedia