Matapanui
| Matapanui Temporal range: Late Oligocene,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Eomysticetidae |
| Genus: | †Matapanui Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2016 |
| Species: | †M. waihao
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| Binomial name | |
| †Matapanui waihao Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2016
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| Synonyms | |
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Matapa Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2016 | |
Matapanui is a genus of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (early Chattian) Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand.