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. 2022 Oct 26;17(10):e0276110. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276110

Table 2. History of study of Eocene archaeocetes from localities yielding Pachycetus, a synonym, or a closely related contemporary.

Author Year Page Identification Country Locality North latitude East longitude Map symb. Map label
Brandt 1873 [25] 336 Zeuglodon paulsonii Ukraine Chyhyryn 49.07300 32.66200 T 1
Paulson (in Brandt) 1873 [25] 339 Zeuglodon rossicus Ukraine Chyhyryn 49.07300 32.66200
Seeley 1876 [27] 428 Zeuglodon wanklyni England Barton Cliff 50.74300 −1.65500 O 2
Van Beneden 1883 [28] 32 Pachycetus robustus Germany Helmstedt 52.22900 11.01000 T 3
Van Beneden 1883 [28] 32 Pachycetus humilis Germany Helmstedt 52.22900 11.01000 T
Lutugin 1894 [33] 147 Zeuglodon sp. Ukraine Pereshchepnoy 48.76400 38.43900 P 4
Andrews 1907 [34] 124 Zeuglodon wanklyni England Barton Cliff 50.74300 −1.65500
Stromer 1908 [35] 109 Eocetus schweinfurthi (pt.) Egypt Gebel Mokattam 30.02700 31.27300 P 5
Fedorovsky 1912 [36] 280 Zeuglodon rossicus Ukraine Koropove 49.58900 36.34600 P 6
Kuhn 1935 [37] 223 ’Zeuglodon’ cf. Z. isis Germany Trendelbusch 52.18700 10.97900 P 7
Bogachev 1959 [38] 42 Zeuglodon paulsonii Russia Khoroshevskaya 47.71900 42.22600 P 8
Halstead and Middleton 1972 [39] 186 Zygorhiza wanklyni England Barton Cliff 50.74300 −1.65500
Lienau 1984 [40] 73 Pachycetus robustus Germany Treue 52.17600 10.98400 P 9
Uhen 1999 [26] 514 Eocetus wardii U.S.A. Laniers Pit 34.62500 −77.67500 T 10
Gritsenko 2001 [41] 18 Platyosphys einori Ukraine Pyrohiv, Kyiv 50.21000 30.32000 T 11
Uhen 2001 [42] 3 Eocetus wardii U.S.A. Rocky Point Quarry 34.42500 −77.86830 P 12
Post 2007 [43] 31 Archaeoceti indet. Netherlands Scheur 10 51.41310 3.25150 P 13
Uhen and Berndt 2008 [44] 57 Eocetus sp. Germany Rohrdorf 47.79694 12.17000 P 14
Weems et al. 2011 [45] 273 ’Eocetus’ wardii U.S.A. Putneys Mill 37.60400 −77.09200 P 15
Gol’din et al. 2012 [46] 105 Eocetus’ sp. Ukraine Kurenevka, Kyiv 50.49500 30.43100 P 16
Kalmykov 2012 [47] 180 Basilosaurus sp. Russia Khoroshevskaya 47.71900 42.22600
Tesakov et al. 2012 [48] 141 Eocetus sp. Russia Khoroshevskaya 47.71900 42.22600
Zvonok 2012 [49] 87 Basilosauridae indet. Ukraine Nagornoye 49.08300 33.13300 P 17
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Basilosaurus sp. Ukraine Subotiv 49.09200 32.54500 O 18
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Basilosaurus sp. Ukraine Pywycha 49.20200 33.12200 O 19
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Basilosaurus sp. Ukraine Nikopol 47.56900 34.39400 O 20
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Basilosaurus sp. Ukraine Pereshchepyne 49.01500 35.36400 O 21
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Platyosphys paulsoni Ukraine Buhaivka 49.47700 37.38500 P 22
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Archaeoceti Ukraine Luhansk 48.50600 39.39300 O 23
Zvonok 2012 [49] 88 Basilosauridae indet. Russia Pyatigorsk 43.89900 43.11100 O 24
Gol’din and Zvonok 2013 [50] 255 Basilotritus uheni Ukraine Beloskelevaoye 48.45000 39.64000 T 25
Gol’din and Zvonok 2013 [50] 259 Basilotritus sp. Ukraine Vlasovka 49.30000 33.26700 P 26
Gol’din and Zvonok 2013 [50] 260 Basilotritus sp. Ukraine Velykaya Andrusovka 49.18300 32.91700 P 27
Gol’din et al. 2014 [51] 269 Basilotritus sp. Ukraine Nagornoye 49.08300 33.13300
Gingerich and Zouhri 2015 [24] 280 Platyosphys aithai Morocco Sabkha de Gueran 25.07667 −13.90763 T 28
Post et al. 2017 [52] 50 Archaeoceti indet. North Sea Scheur 10
Mychko and Tarasenko 2020 [53] 314 Basilosauridae indet. Russia Amber Combine Quarry 54.86700 19.97100 O 29
Van Vliet et al. 2020 [54] 124 Pachycetus robustus Germany Helmstedt and vicinity
Davydenko et al. 2021 [55] 70 Basilosauridae incert. sedis Ukraine Pyrohiv, Kyiv 50.21000 30.32000
This study 2022 Antaecetus sp. Egypt Wadi Rayan WR008 29.08000 30.11900 P 30
This study 2022 Antaecetus aithai Morocco El Briej 25.45100 −13.72100 P 31

Locality symbols plotted on the map in Fig 1: O, possible Pachycetus (smaller circle); P, specimen referred to Pachycetus or a junior synonym (larger circle); T, type specimen of a species referred to Pachycetus (star). Label column here gives the number associated with each locality on the map in Fig 1.