Chilcacetus
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| Chilcacetus | |
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| Skull at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Genus: | †Chilcacetus Lambert et al. 2015 |
| Species: | †C. cavirhinus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chilcacetus cavirhinus Lambert et al. 2015 | |
Chilcacetus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene (Aquitanian) of Peru. Fossils were found in and named after the Chilcatay Formation of the Pisco Basin.[1]
