Horopeta umarere Tsai & Fordyce, 2015
Mammalia
Placentalia
Cetartiodactyla
Cetacea
Mysticeti
Late Oligocene
Middle Kokoamu Greensand [Chattian]
South Island, New Zealand
Length: 7 m
Horopeta is the earliest known gulp feeding whale. It was probably quite similar to modern rorquals. It is known from a fragmentary skeleton from the front part of an individual.
March 20, 2016
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