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| Echericetus Temporal range: Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Eomysticetidae |
| Genus: | †Echericetus Hernández-Cisneros et. al., 2023 |
| Species: | †E. novellus |
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| †Echericetus novellus Hernández-Cisneros et. al., 2023 | |
Echericetus is an extinct genus of eomysticetid cetacean that lived off the coast of what is now Mexico during the Oligocene epoch. A monotypic genus, it contains the species Echericetus novellus.
References
- Hernández-Cisneros, Atzcalli Ehécatl; Schwennicke, Tobias; Rochín-Bañaga, Heriberto; Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu (November 2023). "Echericetus novellus n. gen. n. sp. (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Eomysticetidae), an Oligocene baleen whale from Baja California Sur, Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 97 (6): 1309–1328. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.80. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 15 December 2024 – via Cambridge Core.