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Kaaucetus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | † Aetiocetidae |
Genus: | † Kaaucetus |
Species: | †K. thesaurus |
Binomial name | |
†Kaaucetus thesaurus Hernández-Cisneros, 2022 | |
Kaaucetus is an extinct genus of aetiocetid that inhabited what is now the coast of Mexico during the Chattian stage of the Oligocene epoch. It contains a single species, K. thesaurus. [1]