| Cynthiacetus Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Basilosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Dorudontinae |
| Genus: | †Cynthiacetus Uhen 2005 |
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Cynthiacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale that lived during the Late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian, 40.4 to 33.9 million years ago.)[1] Specimens have been found in the southeastern United States and Peru (Otuma Formation).[2]
- ^ Cynthiacetus maxwelli in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 2013.
- ^ Martínez-Cáceres & de Muizon 2011, Abstract