Gricetoides Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 (gray whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae

Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach. 2008. Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:181-269

Parent taxon: Eschrichtiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Marx and Fordyce 2015 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Archaeschrichtius, Eschrichtioides, Eschrichtius

Subtaxa: Gricetoides aurorae

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation (Pliocene of North Carolina)

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