Awamokoa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Genus: | †Awamokoa |
| Species: | †A. tokarahi
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| †Awamokoa tokarahi Tanaka & Fordyce, 2017
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Awamokoa is an extinct genus of platanistoid that lived during the Chattian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]A. tokarahi is known from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Tanaka, Yoshihiro; Fordyce, Robert Ewan (4 May 2017). "Awamokoa tokarahi , a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (5): 365–386. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1202339. ISSN 1477-2019. Retrieved 20 April 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.