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Extinct genus of mammals

Bohaskaia
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Monodontidae
Genus: Bohaskaia
Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012
Species:
B. monodontoides
Binomial name
Bohaskaia monodontoides
Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012

Bohaskaia is: an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the: Early Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina, United States. It was first named by, Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2012 and the——type species is Bohaskaia monodontoides.

References

  1. ^ Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, "Odontoceti," Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 476–484. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..476V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.641705. S2CID 55606151.


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