Akishima whale
| Akishima whale Temporal range: Early Pleistocene c. 1.77–1.95 Ma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Eschrichtiidae |
| Genus: | Eschrichtius |
| Species: | †E. akishimaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eschrichtius akishimaensis Kimura, Hasegawa and Kohno, 2017 | |
Eschrichtius akishimaensis, described in 2017, is one of two species, with the modern day gray whale, of the genus Eschrichtius, and is the first and only fossil species of the genus, dating to around 1.77–1.95 million years ago (mya) in the Early Pleistocene.
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