Ocucajea

Ocucajea

Opisthokonta

Ocucajea
Temporal range: Middle Eocene, 37 Ma
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Order: Cetacea
Family: †Basilosauridae
Genus: †Ocucajea
Uhen et al., 2011
Species: †O. picklingi
Binomial name
Ocucajea picklingi
Uhen et al., 2011

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. It was first named by Mark D. Uhen, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Thomas J. Devries, Mario Urbina and Paul R. Renne in 2011 and the type species is Ocucajea picklingi.[1]

References

  1. ^ Mark D. Uhen, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Thomas J. Devries, Mario Urbina and Paul R. Renne (2011). "New Middle Eocene Whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru". Journal of Paleontology 85 (5): 955–969. doi:10.1666/10-162.1. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/10-162.1. 


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