| Atocetus | |
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| Skull of A. iquensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Kentriodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Pithanodelphininae |
| Genus: | †Atocetus De Muizon 1988 |
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Atocetus is an extinct genus of pontoporiid dolphin found in Miocene-age marine deposits in Peru and California.[1]
- ^ Ichishima, H.; Barnes, L. G.; Fordyce, R. E.; Kimura, M.; Bohaska, D. J. (1994). "A review of kentriodontine dolphins (Cetacea; Deiphinoidea; Kentriodontidae): Systematics and biogeography". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 486. Bibcode:1994IsArc...3..486I. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00127.x.