Mauicetus Temporal range:
Late Oligocene.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Balaenopteridae (?) |
Genus: | †
Mauicetus Benham, 1939 |
Type species | |
†Lophocephalus parki Benham, 1937
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Synonyms | |
Lophocephalus Benham, 1937 |
Mauicetus is a genus of extinct baleen whale from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand.
Mauicetus was originally named Lophocephalus by William Benham, but that name was already used for a beetle, and Benham provided the replacement name Mauicetus. [1] [2] Three more species were named in 1956: M. brevicollis, M. lophocephalus, and M. waitakiensis. [3] Nowadays, Mauicetus parki is considered a stem-balaenopteroid, while M. lophocephalus and M. waitakiensis have been reclassified in Eomysticetidae, with M. lophocephalus and M. waitakiensis being assigned to Tokarahia and Tohoraata. [4] [5] [6]
Mauicetus Temporal range:
Late Oligocene.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Balaenopteridae (?) |
Genus: | †
Mauicetus Benham, 1939 |
Type species | |
†Lophocephalus parki Benham, 1937
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Synonyms | |
Lophocephalus Benham, 1937 |
Mauicetus is a genus of extinct baleen whale from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand.
Mauicetus was originally named Lophocephalus by William Benham, but that name was already used for a beetle, and Benham provided the replacement name Mauicetus. [1] [2] Three more species were named in 1956: M. brevicollis, M. lophocephalus, and M. waitakiensis. [3] Nowadays, Mauicetus parki is considered a stem-balaenopteroid, while M. lophocephalus and M. waitakiensis have been reclassified in Eomysticetidae, with M. lophocephalus and M. waitakiensis being assigned to Tokarahia and Tohoraata. [4] [5] [6]