Fucaia

Fucaia
Temporal range: Oligocene
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Aetiocetidae
Genus: Fucaia
Marx, Tsai, and Fordyce, 2015
Type species
Fucaia buelli
Species
  • F. buelli
  • F. goedertorum
  • F. humilis

Fucaia is an extinct genus of primitive baleen whale belonging to the family Aetiocetidae that is known from Oligocene and latest Eocene marine deposits on Vancouver Island, Canada, the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, and Oregon.