Basilosaurus
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| Basilosaurus Temporal range: Late Eocene |
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| A skull of Basilosaurus cetoides | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Archaeoceti |
| Family: | Basilosauridae |
| Subfamily: | Basilosaurinae Cope, 1868 |
| Genus: | Basilosaurus Harlan, 1834 |
| Type species | |
| Basilosaurus cetoides |
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Basilosaurus ("King Lizard") is a genus of cetacean that lived from 40 to 34 million years ago in the Late Eocene. The first Basilosaurus fossils were found in Louisiana, USA, but another species was soon discovered preserved in large numbers in the Fayum deposits of Egypt.
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