Waharoa Boessenecker & Fordyce, 2015

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Boessenecker, Robert W. & R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. PeerJ 3: e1129.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Artiodactyla

family

Eomysticetidae

genus

Waharoa

Name

Homonyms

Waharoa Boessenecker & Fordyce, 2015

Bibliographic References

1. Boessenecker, R. W.; Fordyce, R. E. (2015). Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. <em>PeerJ.</em> 3: e1129.
2. Boessenecker, Robert W.; Fordyce, R. Ewan. (2015). Trace fossil evidence of predation upon bone-eating worms on a baleen whale skeleton from the Oligocene of New Zealand. <em>Lethaia.</em> 48(3): 326-331. 10.1111/let.12108
3. Hernández-Cisneros, A. E.; Schwennicke, T.; Rochín-Bañaga, H.; Tsai, C.-H. (2024). Echericetus novellus n. gen. n. sp. (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Eomysticetidae), an Oligocene baleen whale from Baja California Sur, Mexico. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 97(6): 1309-1328 [2023].