Eschrichtioides
| Eschrichtioides Temporal range: | |
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| Eschrichtioides gastaldii, from Portis 1885 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Eschrichtiidae |
| Genus: | †Eschrichtioides Bisconti 2008 |
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†E. gastaldii | |
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Eschrichtioides is an extinct genus of baleen whale known from the early Pliocene of Northern Italy. Its type species, E. gastaldii, had a complex taxonomic history, starting as a cetothere, then as an extinct member of Balaenoptera, before being finally recognized as a relative of the gray whale.