Stromerius
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Basilosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Dorudontinae |
| Genus: | †Stromerius Gingerich 2007 |
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Stromerius is an extinct genus of
Fayum, Egypt (29°36′N 30°36′E / 29.6°N 30.6°E, paleocoordinates 24°54′N 26°30′E / 24.9°N 26.5°E).[1][2]
Life restoration
Stromerius is known from several well-preserved vertebrae. Distinguishing features for the genus include: long and forward-pointing
neural spine interpreted as anticlinal (i.e. the spines of the other vertebrae are inclined towards this specific vertebra) which is a primitive retention in Stromerius not present in other basilosaurids. Stromerius is larger than the contemporary Saghacetus but smaller than the older Dorudon.[3]
Gingerich 2007 made S. nidensis the type species of the subfamily "Stromeriinae", but only mentioned this proposed subfamily briefly in his abstract.[4]
The genus is named for German palaeontologist
Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach who made a ground-breaking work in the recovery of whale fossils in Egypt. The species' name comes from Latin nidus, "nest", after the Arabic name of the type locality Garet el Esh, "hill of the nest".[5]
They are two specimens: Stromer 1903 described and illustrated BSPM 1902.XI.504-510, seven vertebrae,[6] and Gingerich 2007 described UM 100140, 19 complete or partial vertebrae.[7]
Notes
- ^ Stromerius in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 2013.
- ^ Garet el-Esh (Eocene of Egypt) in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 2013.
- ^ Gingerich 2007, Diagnosis, p. 368, 370–1
- ^ Gingerich 2007, Abstract
- ^ Gingerich 2007, Etymology, p. 368
- ^ Stromer 1903, FigXI (IV)
- ^ Gingerich 2007, Description, p. 368–9
References
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