Diorocetus
Diorocetus Temporal range: | |
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Restored skull of a juvenile D. hiatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Pelocetidae |
Genus: | †Diorocetus Kellogg, 1968 |
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Diorocetus is an extinct genus of baleen whale, belonging to the family Diorocetidae. Fossils are found in Miocene-aged marine strata in North America and Japan.[1]
![fossil skull of baleen whale Diorocetus hiatus](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Diorocetus.jpg/220px-Diorocetus.jpg)
References
[edit]- ^ Steeman, M. E. (2007). "Cladistic analysis and a revised classification of fossil and recent mysticetes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (4): 875–894. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00313.x.