Whakakai

Whakakai is a genus of baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand.
Classification.
Phylogenetic analysis recovers "Whakakai" outside crown Mysticeti as the sister taxon of "Horopeta".
Paleobiology.
"Whakakai" has been recovered in the same deposits that have also yielded the primitive odontocetes "Awamokoa", "Austrosqualodon", "Otekaikea", and "Waipatia", the eomysticetids "Matapanui", "Tohoraata", "Tokarahia", and "Waharoa", and the balaenomorphs "Mauicetus" and "Horopeta".