Mystacodon
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Mystacodon is a genus of toothed baleen whale from the Late Eocene Yumaque Member of Paracas Formation (previously called as Yumaque Formation)[1] of the Pisco Basin in southwestern Peru. It is the oldest known baleen whale, and was probably a suction feeder of small prey on the seafloor.
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Mystacodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Llanocetidae |
Genus: | †Mystacodon Lambert et al. 2017 |
Species: | †M. selenensis |
Binomial name | |
†Mystacodon selenensis Lambert et al. 2017 | |
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