| Nihoroa Temporal range:
Chattian, | |
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| Holotype skull (OU 22162) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Waipatiidae |
| Genus: | †Nihoroa Coste, Fordyce, and Loch 2023 |
| Type species | |
| †Nihoroa reimaea Ambre Coste, Robert Ewan Fordyce, and Carolina Loch, 2023
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Nihoroa (IPA: [ˌnihuːˈrɔːɑː]) (meaning "long teeth") is an extinct genus of waipatiid odontocete cetacean from the glauconitic Otekaike Limestone in North Otago; New Zealand. The type species is N. reimaea, known from only the holotype which comprises various skull elements.[1]
- ^ Coste, Ambre; Fordyce, Robert; Loch, Carolina (8 November 2023). "A new fossil dolphin with tusk-like teeth from New Zealand and an analysis of procumbent teeth in fossil cetaceans". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Latest Articles (Fossil vertebrates from southern Zealandia). doi:10.1080/03036758.2023.2267456. PMC 11459815. Retrieved 9 November 2023.