Echovenator

Echovenator
Temporal range: Late Oligocene,
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Xenorophidae
Genus: Echovenator
Churchill et al., 2016
Species:
E. sandersi
Binomial name
Echovenator sandersi
Churchill et al., 2016

Echovenator ("echolocation hunter") is a genus of primitive odontocete from late Oligocene (Chattian) marine deposits in South Carolina. It belongs to the Xenorophidae.