†Otekaikea Tanaka and Fordyce 2014 (toothed whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae
Full reference: Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce. 2014. Fossil dolphin Otekaikea marplesi (Latest Oligocene, New Zealand) expands the morphological and taxonomic diversity of Oligocene cetaceans. PLoS One 9(9):e107972
Parent taxon: Waipatiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Robinson et al. 2024, Tanaka and Fordyce 2014 and Tanaka and Fordyce 2015
Sister taxa: Nihohae, Nihoroa, Papahu, Waipatia
Subtaxa: Otekaikea huata Otekaikea marplesi
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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