Horopeta umarere Tsai and Fordyce 2015 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: C.-H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Belongs to Horopeta according to C.-H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OU 21982, a partial skeleton (skull and partial skeleton, including perfects and bullae). Its type locality is Hakataramea valley (I40/f177), which is in a Duntroonian marine sandstone in the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hakataramea valley (I40/f177)

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