Mammalia - Cetacea - Kekenodontidae
Alternative combinations: Kekenodon omata, Kekenodon onomata, Kenodon onamata
Full reference: J. Hector. 1881. Notes on New Zealand Cetacea, recent and fossil. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 13:434-437
Belongs to Kekenodon according to J. E. Corrie and R. E. Fordyce 2022
See also Abel 1914, Clementz et al. 2014, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 1991, Hall 1911, Harland et al. 1967, Hector 1881, Hector 1882, Kellogg 1923, Kellogg 1936, Keyes 1973, Martínez-Cáceres et al. 2017, Sanders et al. 1982, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen 2018, Zittel 1894 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMNZ Ma 306, a mandible (lower jaw and teeth). Its type locality is Wharekuri Creek, which is in a Duntroonian offshore shelf sandstone in the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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