Eucetotherium
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''Eucetotherium'' is a genus of cetotheriid
mysticete Baleen whales (), also known as whalebone whales, are marine mammals of the parvorder Mysticeti in the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises), which use baleen plates (or "whalebone") in their mouths to sieve plankton from the water ...
from Miocene (
Tortonian The Tortonian is in the geologic time scale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma and 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It follows the Serravallian and is followed by the Messinian. The Tort ...
) marine deposits in the Russian Caucasus.


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Cetotheriidae Miocene cetaceans Monotypic prehistoric cetacean genera Fossil taxa described in 1873 Miocene mammals of Europe {{Paleo-whale-stub