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EOMYSTICETUS
(e-o-miss-tee-cee-tus)
meaning: "Dawn baleen whale"
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 |
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Eomysticetus is an extinct genus of toothless baleen whale from the late Oligocene (Chattian) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina.

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