Echovenator

Echovenator
Temporal range: Late Oligocene,
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: †Xenorophidae
Genus: †Echovenator
Churchill et al., 2016
Species:
†E. sandersi
Binomial name
†Echovenator sandersi
Churchill et al., 2016

Echovenator ("echolocation hunter") is a genus of primitive odontocete from late Oligocene (Chattian) marine deposits in South Carolina. It belongs to the Xenorophidae.

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