aetiocetid

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aetiocetid (plural aetiocetids)

  1. A member of the extinct family of baleen whales Aetiocetidae.
    • 2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      A 25-million-year-old fossil whale from Washington State, specimen NMV P252567 – or ‘Alfred’ to his friends – belongs to an extinct group of whales called aetiocetids.
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