Bohaskaia monodontoides

Bohaskaia monodontoides is an extinct whale of the beluga-like odontocete group, known from Early Pliocene rocks of Virginia and North Carolina in the United States. It is the type species of the genus Bohaskaia, which was named in 2012 by Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson. The Paleobiology Database records the species under the authority Velez-Juarbe and Pyenson 2012, places it in the Zanclean age between about 5.3 and 3.6 million years ago and lists two fossil occurrences. The genus is counted among the extinct members of the family Monodontidae, the family of the living narwhal and beluga, so this species records part of that family's fossil history on the western side of the North Atlantic.