Pontobasileus
{{short description|Genus of mammals}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Eocene}}
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| genus = Pontobasileus
| parent_authority = Leidy, 1873
| species = tuberculatus
| authority = Leidy, 1873
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Pontobasileus is an archaeocete whale known from a fragment of a single tooth described by {{Harvnb|Leidy|1873}}.{{Harvnb|Leidy|1873|loc=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40567337#page/514/mode/2up Plate XXXVII, Fig. 15]}}{{Cite web
| title = †Pontobasileus Leidy 1873 (whale) | publisher = Fossilworks
| url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63091 | access-date = 17 December 2021}} It can questionably be dated to the Eocene of Alabama.{{Harvnb|Gillette|1975|p=65}}
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{{Harvnb|Kellogg|1936|pp=264–265}} and even a squalodont odontocete (a more recent whale), but can also be assigned to Protocetidae.{{harvnb|Hulbert|Petkewich|Bishop|Bukry|1998|p=918}}
References
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- {{Cite journal
| last = Gillette | first = D. D.
| title = Catalogue of Type Specimens of Fossil Vertebrates, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Introduction and Part I: Marine Mammals
| year = 1975 | journal = Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | volume = 127
| pages = 63–66
| jstor = 4064701 }}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Hulbert | first1 = R. C. Jr.
| last2 = Petkewich | first2 = R. M.
| last3 = Bishop | first3 = G. A.
| last4 = Bukry | first4 = D.
| last5 = Aleshire | first5 = D. P.
| title = A new middle Eocene protocetid whale (Mammalia: Cetacea: Archaeoceti) and associated biota from Georgia
| year = 1998 | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 72 | issue = 5 | pages = 907–926
| doi = 10.1017/S0022336000027232
| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257621646 | access-date = 24 June 2016
|jstor = 1306667 }}
- {{Cite book
| last = Kellogg | first = R. | author-link = Remington Kellogg
| title = A review of the Archaeoceti
| year = 1936 | location = Washington | publisher = Carnegie Institution of Washington
| url = http://publicationsonline.carnegiescience.edu/publications_online/archaeoceti.pdf | format = PDF, 48 Mb | access-date = 24 June 2016
| oclc = 681376 }}
- {{Cite book
| last = Leidy | first = J. | author-link = Joseph Leidy
| title = Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories
| year = 1873 | series = Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories | publisher = United States. Dept. of the Interior | pages = 1–358
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40567172#page/350/mode/2up | access-date = 17 December 2021
}}
- {{cite web |title=J. Leidy 1873 |website=Fossilworks |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayRefResults?reference_no=11982}}
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