Casatia
| Casatia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Monodontidae |
| Genus: | †Casatia Bianucci, Pesci, Collareta & Tinelli, 2019 |
| Species: | †C. thermophila
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| Binomial name | |
| †Casatia thermophila Bianucci, Pesci, Collareta & Tinelli, 2019
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Casatia is a genus of extinct
monodontids evolved from warm water genera before becoming adapted to cold water.[citation needed
]
Fossils were discovered in Italy and are the first and only fossils of a
Metaxytherium subapenninum.[1]
References
- hdl:11568/1022436.