| Waharoa Temporal range: Late Oligocene,
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| Holotype skull shown from above | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Eomysticetidae |
| Genus: | †Waharoa Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2015 |
| Species: | †W. ruwhenua
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| Binomial name | |
| †Waharoa ruwhenua Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2015
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Waharoa is a genus of eomysticetid baleen whale from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand. It was identified with the discovery of Waharoa ruwhenua by Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), which added a new genus and species to a monophyletic family Eomysticetidae.[1]