Mammalia - Cetacea - Kekenodontidae
Alternative spellings: Kenodon, Kokenodon, Xekenodon
Full reference: J. Hector. 1881. Notes on New Zealand Cetacea, recent and fossil. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 13:434-437
Parent taxon: Kekenodontidae according to E. M. G. Fitzgerald 2010
See also Abel 1914, Abel 1919, Carroll 1988, Clementz et al. 2014, Corrie and Fordyce 2022, Fordyce 1980, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Hall 1911, Harland et al. 1967, Hector 1881, Kellogg 1928, Kellogg 1936, Keyes 1973, Lydekker 1892, Martínez-Cáceres et al. 2017, McKenna and Bell 1997, Moustafa 1954, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Stromer 1908, Trouessart 1898, Uhen 2008, Uhen 2018, Whitmore and Sanders 1977 and Zittel 1894
Sister taxa: Squalodon gambierensis, Tohoraonepu
Subtaxa: Kekenodon onamata
Type: Kekenodon onamata
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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