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Ocucajea

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Kingdom
  
Infraorder
  
Species
  
†O. picklingi

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Family
  
†Basilosauridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Even-toed ungulate

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Similar
  
Stromerius, Cynthiacetus, Aegyptocetus, Makaracetus

Ocucajea is an extinct genus of basilosaurid cetacean from Middle Eocene (Bartonian stage) deposits of southern Peru. Ocucajea is known from the holotype MUSM 1442, a partial skeleton. It was collected in the Archaeocete Valley site, from the Paracas Formation of the Pisco Basin about 37 million years ago.

The genus was named after the town Ocucaje in the Ica Province near the type locality, and the species after José Luis Pickling Zolezzi, naturalist, artist, and an important contributor to Peruvian palaeontology.

Ocucajea is smaller than all other dorudontines. It differs from Saghacetus and Dorudon in cranial morphology; in Ocucajea the nasals extends farther posteriorly than the maxillae, and there is no narial process of the frontal like in Saghacetus.

References

Ocucajea Wikipedia


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