Dorudon

Dorudon ("spear-tooth") is a genus of extinct <a href="/facts/Basilosaurid/xFJvcsJK">basilosaurid</a> <a href="/facts/Ancient_whales/zCpgSnBM">ancient whales</a> that lived alongside <a href="/facts/Basilosaurus/S7dLTWP7">Basilosaurus</a> 41.03 to 33.9 million years ago in the <a href="/facts/Eocene/EYgI8Uco">Eocene</a>. It was a small whale, with D. atrox measuring 5 metres (16 ft) long and weighing 1–2.2 metric tons (1.1–2.4 short tons). Dorudon lived in warm seas around the world and fed on small <a href="/facts/Fish/fln4gH9V">fish</a> and <a href="/facts/Mollusk/1elgknsQ">mollusks</a>. Fossils have been found along the former shorelines of the <a href="/facts/Tethys_Sea/X2b2FIu3">Tethys Sea</a> in present-day <a href="/facts/Egypt/8Ttg0JwB">Egypt</a> and <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>, as well as in the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, <a href="/facts/New_Zealand/4mpSlJdg">New Zealand</a> and <a href="/facts/Western_Sahara/xAmSkuJl">Western Sahara</a>.

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Dorudon