Bohaskaia

Bohaskaia
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Infraorder:Cetacea
Family:Monodontidae
Genus:Bohaskaia
Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012
Type species
Bohaskaia monodontoides
Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012

Bohaskaia is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina, United States. It was first named by Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2012 and the type species is Bohaskaia monodontoides.[1]

References

  1. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 476–484. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.641705.


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