Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: R. W. Boessenecker and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’ lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Parent taxon: Eomysticetidae according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Marx et al. 2016 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Echericetus, Eomysticetus, Matapanui, Micromysticetus, Waharoa, Yamatocetus
Subtaxa: Tokarahia kauaeroa Tokarahia lophocephalus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of New Zealand (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections including 6 occurrences
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