Cetotherium

Cetotherium
Temporal range:
Mounted skeleton of Cetotherium riabinini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Cetotheriidae
Subfamily: †Cetotheriinae
Whitmore & Barnes, 2008
Genus: †Cetotherium
Brandt 1843
Type species
†C. rathkii
Species
  • †C. crassangulum Cope, 1895
  • †C. furlongi Kellogg, 1925
  • †C. rathkii Brandt, 1843
  • †C. riabinini Hofstein, 1948

Cetotherium ("whale beast") is an extinct genus of baleen whales from the family Cetotheriidae.

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