Taxonavigation
Genus: †Papahu
Species: Papahu taitapu
Name
Papahu taitapu Aguirre-Fernández & Fordyce, 2014: 197
- Original genus: Papahu Aguirre-Fernández & Fordyce, 2014
- Original status: valid species
- Primary type: holotype
- Fixation: designated
- Description: 'an incomplete skull (lacking part of the rostrum), the left periotic, the right mandible, five vertebrae, and a single rib'
- Repository: OTAG OU 22066
- Type locality and horizon: 'Near Hansen Creek (40.68°S, 172.39°E), 1 km south of the mouth of Sandhills Creek, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand (Fig. 1). Kaipuke Formation. For geological maps, see Bishop (1968) and Rattenbury et al. (1998)'
- ZooBank: 4EAFEA5D-FD12-4A14-9AF1-9A637E651CA7
Notes
- Combined genus/species description (under species)
References
- Aguirre-Fernández, G. & Fordyce, R.E. 2014. Papahu taitapu, gen. et sp. nov., an early Miocene stem odontocete (Cetacea) from New Zealand. Journal of vertebrate paleontology 34(1): 195–210. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.799069 Reference page. [See p. 197, and Figs. 2–7, Tables 1–3]
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