Tohoraata [SEP] parent taxon
Tohoraata
Tohoraata is a genus of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand. There are two recognized species, "T. raekohao" and "T. waitakiensis".
Classification.
"Tohoraata" is a member of the family Eomysticetidae, a family of primitive baleen-bearing mysticetes (chaeomysticetes). The type species, "T. raekohao", is based on OU 22178, a partial skull associated with a thoracic vertebra and five ribs, collected from the Maerewhenua Member of the Otekaike Limestone
Whakakai
Whakakai is a genus of baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand.
Classification.
Phylogenetic analysis recovers "Whakakai" outside crown Mysticeti as the sister taxon of "Horopeta".
Paleobiology.
"Whakakai" has been recovered in the same deposits that have also yielded the primitive odontocetes "Awamokoa", "Austrosqualodon", "Otekaikea", and "Waipatia", the eomysticetids "Matapanui", "Tohoraata", "Tokarahia", and "Waharoa"