Otekaikea

Otekaikea
Temporal range: Late Oligocene.
Partial holotype skull of O. marplesi shown form above
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Family: †Waipatiidae
Genus: †Otekaikea
Tanaka and Fordyce, 2014
Species
  • O. marplesi (Dickson, 1964) (type)
  • O. huata Tanaka and Fordyce, 2015

Otekaikea is an extinct genus of toothed whale closely related to Waipatia. It is known from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand.

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