Echovenator ("echolocation hunter") is a genus of primitive odontocete from late Oligocene (Chattian) marine deposits in South Carolina.

It belongs to the Xenorophidae.

[1] Echovenator is distinguishable from other xenorophids in having a paranaris fossa and fused fronto-nasal and maxillo-premaxillary sutures.

[2] The earbone structure shows that this odontocete was clearly capable of echolocation.

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