Toipahautea
Name:
Toipahautea.
Phonetic: Toy-pa-howt-e-ah.
Named By: C.-H. Tsai & R. E. Fordyce
- 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Mysticeti.
Species: T. waitaki (type).
Diet: Filter feeder.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: New Zealand - Kokoamu Greensand.
Time period: Chattian of the Oligocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Toipahautea
is a genus of baleen whale
that lived in waters around new Zealand
during the Oligocene.
Further reading
- A new archaic baleen whale Toipahautea waitaki
(early Late
Oligocene, New Zealand) and the origins of crown Mysticeti. -
Royal Society Open Science 5(4):172453. - C.-H. Tsai
&
R. E. Fordyce - 2018.
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