†Gricetoides Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 (gray whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach. 2008. Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:181-269
Parent taxon: Eschrichtiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Marx and Fordyce 2015 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Archaeschrichtius, Eschrichtioides, Eschrichtius
Subtaxa: Gricetoides aurorae
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation (Pliocene of North Carolina)
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