Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae

Full reference: G. Aguirre-Fernández and R. E. Fordyce. 2014. Papahu taitapu, gen. et sp. nov., an early Miocene stem odontocete (Cetacea) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):195-210

Belongs to Papahu according to J. H. Robinson et al. 2024

See also Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OU 22066, a skull (incomplete skull (lacking part of the rostrum), the left periotic, the right mandible, five vertebrae, and a single rib). Its type locality is Hansen Creek, which is in an Otaian marine siltstone in the Kaipuke Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hansen Creek

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