aetiocetid
English
editNoun
editaetiocetid (plural aetiocetids)
- A member of the extinct family of baleen whales Aetiocetidae.
- 2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- A 25-million-year-old fossil whale from Washington State, specimen NMV P252567 – or ‘Alfred’ to his friends – belongs to an extinct group of whales called aetiocetids.