Microcetus

Microcetus
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: †Waipatiidae (?)
Genus: †Microcetus
Kellogg, 1923
Species
  • M. ambiguus (von Meyer, 1840) (type)
  •  ?M. sharkovi Dubrovo and Sharkov 1971

Microcetus is a genus of extinct odontocete from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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