| Waipatia Temporal range:
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| The fish Megalampris (above) and W. maerewhenua (below) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Waipatiidae |
| Genus: | †Waipatia Fordyce, 1994 |
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Waipatia is an extinct genus of odontocetes from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.
- ^ Fordyce, R. E. (1994). "Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, new family), an archaic Late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand" (PDF). In A. Berta & T. Deméré (ed.). Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. (Proceedings of the San Diego Museum of Natural History, 29). pp. 147–176.