Otekaikea Temporal range: Late Oligocene.
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Partial holotype skull of O. marplesi shown form above | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
Family: | †Waipatiidae |
Genus: | †Otekaikea Tanaka and Fordyce, 2014 |
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Otekaikea is an extinct genus of toothed whale closely related to Waipatia. It is known from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.