''Takracetus'' was a primitive
cetacean
Cetacea (; , ) is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively c ...
that lived approximately . The type specimen (GSP-UM 3041) is a partial skull though the literature mentions a second more complete specimen.
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Protocetidae
Monotypic prehistoric cetacean genera
Fossil taxa described in 1995
Extinct mammals of Asia
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