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Zygorhiza
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Zygorhiza ("Yoke-Root") is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale known from the Late Eocene (Priabonian, 38–34 Ma) of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, United States, and the Bartonian (43–37 Ma on the New Zealand geologic time scale) to the late Eocene of New Zealand (43 to 33.9 million years ago).[1] Specimens reported from Europe are considered Dorudontinae incertae sedis.[2]
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Zygorhiza | |
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Zygorhiza kochii skeleton, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Basilosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Dorudontinae |
Genus: | †Zygorhiza True 1908 |
Species: | †Z. kochii |
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†Zygorhiza kochii (Reichenbach in Carus, 1847) | |
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Zygorhiza kochii, along with Basilosaurus under the designation "prehistoric whales", is the state fossil of Mississippi.[3]