Sulakocetus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Speciesbox

| fossil_range = Chattian {{fossil_range|28.4|23.03}}

| parent_authority = Mchedlidze, 1976

| taxon = Sulakocetus dagestanicus

| authority = Mchedlidze, 1976

}}

Sulakocetus is an extinct genus of toothed whale. It was first described by G.A. Mchedlidze in 1976 with the type species S. dagestanicus.G. A. Mchedlidze. 1976. Osnovnye Cherty Paleobiologischeskoi Istorii Kitoobraznykh. Initially classified as part of family Waipatiidae,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sD3NBQAAQBAJ&q=genus+Sulakocetus&pg=PA64|title=Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Cetacea: Whales, Porpoises and Dolphins|last=Miller|first=Debra Lee|date=2016-04-19|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781439842577|pages=64|language=en}} further research has called its taxonomic placement into question. A review in 1990 indicated that it should be excluded from the superfamily Platanistoidea.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTYcAQAAMAAJ&q=genus+Sulakocetus|title=Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle: Sciences de la terre, paléontologie, géologie, minéralogie|date=1990|publisher=Le Muséum|language=fr|quote=Sulakocetus should perhaps be regarded as an Odontoceti incertae sedis but, in any case, it should not be referred to the super-family Platanistoidea, to which belongs the family Squalodontidae.}} A further assessment in 2016 stated that it should not be classified with the Waipatiidae, and left its status for further review, essentially rendering it incertae sedis.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-vbCwAAQBAJ&q=Sulakocetus&pg=PT313|title=Cetacean Paleobiology|last1=Marx|first1=Felix G.|last2=Lambert|first2=Olivier|last3=Uhen|first3=Mark D.|date=2016-03-29|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118561553|language=en}}