Bohaskaia
Extinct genus of mammals
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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]
| Bohaskaia Temporal range: Early Pliocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Monodontidae |
| Genus: | †Bohaskaia Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012 |
| Species: | †B. monodontoides |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bohaskaia monodontoides Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012 | |
