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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Balaenopteroidea |
| Family: | †Tranatocetidae |
| Genus: | †Mesocetus van Beneden, 1880 |
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Mesocetus[1] is an extinct genus of baleen whale from the Miocene of Europe and North America.
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