†Gricetoides aurorae Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 (gray whale)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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