Cynthiacetus Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Skeleton at the MNHN, Paris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Basilosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Dorudontinae |
Genus: | †Cynthiacetus Uhen 2005 |
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Cynthiacetus is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale that lived during the Late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian, 40.4 to 33.9 million years ago.)[1] Specimens have been found in the southeastern United States and Peru (Otuma Formation).[2]