Eschrichtioides

Eschrichtioides
Temporal range: Pliocene
Eschrichtioides gastaldii, from Portis 1885
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Eschrichtiidae
Genus: Eschrichtioides
Bisconti 2008
Species

E. gastaldii
Strobel 1881

Synonyms

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.