Named By: | A. E. Sanders & L. G. Barnes in 2002 |
Time Period: | Chattian |
Location: | USA, South Carolina - Chandler Bridge Formation |
Size: | Skull of E. whitmorei about 1.5 meters long, suggesting a total body length of about 7 meters |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Two partial skulls |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Cetacea | Myticeti | Eomysticetidae | |
Eomysticetus is an extinct genus of toothless baleen whale from the late Oligocene (Chattian) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina.