Agorophius
Extinct species of whale / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agorophius is an extinct genus of toothed whale that lived during the Oligocene period, approximately 32 million years ago, in the waters off what is now South Carolina.
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Agorophius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
Family: | †Agorophiidae Godfrey et al., 2016 |
Genus: | †Agorophius Cope, 1895 |
Type species | |
Agorophius pygmaeus J. P. Muller, 1849 |
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