Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae
Full reference: R. E. Fordyce. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species, Waipatiidae, new family, an archaic late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:147-176
Parent taxon: Waipatiidae according to O. Lambert et al. 2017
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 1994, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Marx et al. 2016, Robinson et al. 2024, Tanaka and Fordyce 2014 and Tanaka and Fordyce 2015
Sister taxa: Nihohae, Nihoroa, Otekaikea, Papahu
Subtaxa: Waipatia hectori Waipatia maerewhenua
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2 collections), United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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