Calafiacetus
Extinct genus of baleen whale
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Calafiacetus is an extinct genus of baleen whale that lived during the Chattian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
| Calafiacetus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
| Clade: | Chaeomysticeti |
| Genus: | †Calafiacetus |
| Species: | †C. longipinna |
| Binomial name | |
| †Calafiacetus longipinna Solis-Añorvea et al., 2026 | |
Palaeobiology
Locomotion
Calafiacetus longipinna exhibited an undulatory locomotory pattern, which was facilitated by its vertebral centra being elongated.[1]
