Fucaia
| Fucaia Temporal range: Oligocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Aetiocetidae |
| Genus: | †Fucaia Marx, Tsai, and Fordyce, 2015 |
| Type species | |
| †Fucaia buelli | |
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Fucaia is an extinct genus of primitive baleen whale belonging to the family Aetiocetidae that is known from Oligocene marine deposits found in Vancouver Island, Canada and Olympic Island, Washington State.
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