Coronodon | |
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Coronodon anterolateral at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
Genus: | †Coronodon Geisler et al., 2017 |
Type species | |
Coronodon havensteini Geisler et al., 2017
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Other species | |
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Coronodon (meaning "crown tooth") is a genus of toothed (transitional) baleen whales from the Early Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge formations of South Carolina. The genus contains three species: the type species C. havensteini, and additional species C. newtonorum and C. planifrons.