Gricetoides aurorae 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

Belongs to Gricetoides according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015

See also Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 182921, a partial skull (basal portion of posterior part of cranium). Its type locality is Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation, which is in a Zanclean estuary/bay sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation

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