Coronodon

Coronodon; Temporal range: Oligocene ; ~(Rupelian-Chattian),; ~
	Coronodon anterolateral at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Parvorder:	Mysticeti
Genus:	†Coronodon; Geisler et al., 2017
Type species
	Coronodon havensteini; Geisler et al., 2017
Other species
	†C. newtonorum Boessenecker et al., 2023; †C. planifrons Boessenecker et al., 2023;

Coronodon (meaning "crown tooth") is a genus of toothed (transitional) baleen whales from the Early Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge formations of South Carolina. The genus contains three species: the type species C. havensteini, and additional species C. newtonorum and C. planifrons.

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