Fucaia humilis Tsai et al. 2024 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Aetiocetidae

Full reference: C.-H. Tsai, J. L. Goedert, and R. W. Boessenecker. 2024. The oldest mysticete in the Northern Hemisphere. Current Biology

Belongs to Fucaia according to C.-H. Tsai et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Fucaia buelli, Fucaia goedertorum

Type specimen: UWBM 109363, a partial skull (posterior portion of a skull with right periotic and bulla attached, partial mandible, and the hyoid apparatus). Its type locality is Middle Fork of Statsop River, west bank, which is in a Priabonian basinal (siliceous) mudstone/siltstone in the Lincoln Creek Formation of Washington.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Middle Fork of Statsop River, west bank

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