Waipatia
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| 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] | |
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]
References
- ↑ 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". In A. Berta & T. Deméré. Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. (Proceedings of the San Diego Museum of Natural History, 29). pp. 147–176.
- ↑ R. Ewan Fordyce. "Waipatia maerewhenua — a small archaic dolphin from the Oligocene of New Zealand". University of Otago.
Further reading
- Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology by Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, and Kit M. Kovacs
- Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea by Richard Ellis
- Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
- Marine Mammal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach by A. Rus Hoelzel
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