Mammalia - Cetacea - Waipatiidae

Full reference: R. E. Fordyce. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, New Genus and New Species, Waipatiidae, New Family, an archaic late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:147-176

Parent taxon: Waipatiidae according to J. H. Geisler et al. 2011

Sister taxon: Sulakocetus

Subtaxa: Waipatia maerewhenua

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Type: Waipatia maerewhenua

Ecology: aquatic carnivore