Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae
Full reference: R. E. Fordyce. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species, Waipatiidae, new family, an archaic late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:147-176
Parent taxon: Platanistoidea according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Barnes 2006, Barnes and Reynolds 2009, Bianucci et al. 2011, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Boessenecker and Geisler 2023, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Godfrey et al. 2006, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Tanaka and Fordyce 2014 and Tanaka and Fordyce 2015
Sister taxa: Allodelphinidae, Aondelphis, Awamokoa, Dalpiazinidae, Dolgopolis, Perditicetus, Prosqualodontidae, Urkudelphis
Subtaxa: Otekaikea Papahu Waipatia
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Malta (3 collections), New Zealand (2)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences