Full reference: C.-H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce. 2018. A new archaic baleen whale Toipahautea waitaki (early Late Oligocene, New Zealand) and the origins of crown Mysticeti. Royal Society Open Science 5(4):172453
Belongs to Toipahautea according to C.-H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: OU 21981, a partial skeleton (disarticulated partial skull (parts of the maxillae and premaxillae, left nasal, frontals, squamosals, exoccipitals, basioccipital and supraoccipital), incomple). Its type locality is Haughs Quarry, Hakataramea valley (I40/f173), which is in a Whaingaroan marine sandstone in the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Haughs Quarry, Hakataramea valley (I40/f173)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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