Kutchicetus

Taxobox
name = "Kutchicetus"
fossil_range = Middle Eocene

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image_width = 260px
image_caption = Reconstruction of "Kutchicetus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Cetacea
subordo = Archaeoceti
familia = Remingtonocetidae
genus = "Kutchicetus"
genus_authority = Bajpai and Thewissen, 2000
binomial = "Kutchicetus minimus"
binomial_authority = Bajpai and Thewissen, 2000

"Kutchicetus" was an early Eocene 46 Ma cetacean that could walk as well as swim. It is a transitional fossil that shows how whales evolved from land-living mammals. It was a small animal, no larger than a river otter.

See also

* Evolution of cetaceans