Khoikhoicetus

Khoikhoicetus
Temporal range: probably Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Ziphiidae
Genus: Khoikhoicetus
Bianucci, Lambert, and Post, 2007
Species
  • K. agulhasis Bianucci, Lambert & Post, 2007 (type)
  • K. kergueleni Lambert, Muizon, Duhamel & van der Plicht, 2018

Khoikhoicetus is an extinct genus of ziphiid cetacean known from skulls found on seafloor sediments of probable Miocene age off the coast of South Africa and the Kerguelen Islands.

Systematics

Two species are known, K. agulhasis and K. kergueleni. The genus Khoikhoicetus is closely related to beaked whales of the genera Mesoplodon, Hyperoodon, and Indopacetus. The two species differ from each other in their size and the width of the premaxillary crests.


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