| Waipatia Temporal range: Late Oligocene |
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| The fish Megalampris (above) and Waipatia (below) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Waipatiidae Fordyce, 1994 |
| Genus: | Waipatia Fordyce, 1994 |
| Species: | W. maerewhenua |
| Binomial name | |
| Waipatia maerewhenua Fordyce, 1994 [1] |
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Waipatia maerewhenua is an extinct species of whale from the Oligocene of New Zealand. It is known from a single skull found near 45° South in Otago [2].