Awamokoa

Awamokoa
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Genus:
Species:
A. tokarahi
Binomial name
Awamokoa tokarahi
Tanaka & Fordyce, 2017

Awamokoa is an extinct genus of platanistoid that lived during the Chattian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Distribution

Awamokoa tokarahi is known from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.[1]

References

  1. ^ Tanaka, Yoshihiro; Fordyce, Robert Ewan (4 May 2017). "Awamokoa tokarahi , a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (5): 365–386. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1202339. ISSN 1477-2019. Retrieved 20 April 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.