Nihoroa

Nihoroa
Temporal range:
Chattian,
Holotype skull (OU 22162)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Waipatiidae
Genus: Nihoroa
Coste, Fordyce, and Loch 2023
Type species
Nihoroa reimaea
Ambre Coste, Robert Ewan Fordyce, and Carolina Loch, 2023

Nihoroa (Māori pronunciation: [ˌnihɔˈɾɔa]) (meaning "long teeth") is an extinct genus of waipatiid odontocete cetacean from the glauconitic Otekaike Limestone in North Otago; New Zealand. The type species is N. reimaea, known from only the holotype which comprises various skull elements.