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
Belongs to Waipatia according to Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce 2015
See also Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 1994, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014, Geisler et al. 2011 and Tanaka and Fordyce 2014
Sister taxon: Waipatia hectori
Type specimen: OU 22095, a skull. Its type locality is The Earthquakes, which is in a Duntroonian carbonate limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at The Earthquakes
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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