sayasanicus Tarasenko and Lopatin, 2012 (type) Vampalus is a genus of cetotheriid mysticete from Miocene (Tortonian) marine deposits in the Russian Caucasus.

[1] The type species, V. sayasanicus, is based on PIN 5341/1, a complete skeleton.

The cetotheriid Eucetotherium helmersonii was mistakenly assigned to Vampalus by Tarasenko and Lopatin, who were unaware that Kellogg (1931) fixed "Cetotherium" helmersonii as the Eucetotherium type species.

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