Khoikhoicetus

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Khoikhoicetus
Temporal range: probably Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Ziphiidae
Genus: Khoikhoicetus
Bianucci, Lambert, and Post, 2007
Species
  • K. agulhasis Bianucci, Lambert & Post, 2007 (type)
  • K. kergueleni Lambert, Muizon, Duhamel & van der Plicht, 2018

Khoikhoicetus is an extinct genus of ziphiid cetacean known from skulls found on seafloor sediments of probable Miocene age off the coast of South Africa and the Kerguelen Islands.

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