Yamatocetus
Sign in to saveYamatocetus canaliculatus is an extinct species of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene of Japan.
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Vinony files it under Baleen whales, Fossil taxa described in 2012 and Monotypic prehistoric cetacean genera.
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Yamatocetus canaliculatus is an extinct species of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene of Japan.
==Taxonomy== The holotype specimen, a partial skeleton, was discovered by curator Toshiyuki Kamei in October 1981 in the Ashiya Group of the Jinnobaru Formation on the island of Kyushu, and stored in the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History. The genus name honors the old name of Japan, Yamato, and Latin cetus, "whale." The species name translates to "with groove" in reference to the grooves in its mouth which indicate functional baleen. It was placed into the family Eomysticetidae, a primitive group of baleen whales.
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