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Chrysocetus
''Chrysocetus'' (from Greek ''chrysous'', "golden", and ''ketos'', "whale", in reference to the gold-colored bones of the type specimen) is a genus of extinct early whale known from Late Eocene-aged fossils of the eastern US and western Africa. ==Taxonomy== The type species, ''Chrysocetus healyorum'', is based on a single subadult specimen from the late middle or early late Eocene of Orangeburg County, South Carolina (, paleocoordinates ).〔. Retrieved April 2013.〕 The holotype, SCSM 87.195, consists of a partial skull with lower jaws, ten teeth, and the hyoid apparatus; 21 vertebrae, some ribs and a sternum; a partial left forelimb; and partial innominates.〔 A second species, ''Chrysocetus fouadassii'', is known from Bartonian-age deposits in the Western Sahara.〔Philip D. Gingerich and Samir Zouhri (2015). "New fauna of archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Bartonian middle Eocene of southern Morocco". Journal of African Earth Sciences 111: 273–286. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.08.006.〕
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