Bohaskaia Temporal range:
Early Pliocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Monodontidae |
Genus: | †
Bohaskaia Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012 |
Species: | †B. monodontoides
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Binomial name | |
†Bohaskaia monodontoides Vélez-Juarbe & Pyenson, 2012
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Bohaskaia is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina, United States. It was first named by Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2012 and the type species is Bohaskaia monodontoides. [1]