Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: R. W. Boessenecker and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. PeerJ 3:e1129
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, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Marx et al. 2016 and Tsai and Kohno 2017
Sister taxa: Echericetus, Eomysticetus, Matapanui, Micromysticetus, Tokarahia, Yamatocetus
Subtaxa: Waharoa ruwhenua
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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