Eschrichtioides Temporal range:
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Eschrichtioides gastaldii, from Portis 1885 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Eschrichtiidae |
Genus: | †Eschrichtioides Bisconti 2008 |
Species | |
†E. gastaldii | |
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Eschrichtioides is an extinct genus of baleen whale known from the early Pliocene of Northern Italy. Its type species, E. gastaldii, had a complex taxonomic history, starting as a cetothere, then as an extinct member of Balaenoptera, before being finally recognized as a relative of the gray whale.