| Named By: | Mark D. Uhen & Philip D. Gingerich in 2001 |
| Time Period: | Eocene |
| Location: | USA, South Carolina - Tupelo Bay Formation (initial description cited the Cross Formation which is now placed as a member of the Tupelo Bay Formation) |
| Size: | Unavailable |
| Diet: | Carnivore/Piscivore |
| Fossil(s): | Partial skull and post cranial skeleton from a possible sub-adult |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Cetacea | Basilosauridae | |
Chrysocetus (from Greek chrysous, "golden", and ketos, "whale", in reference to the gold-colored bones of the type specimen) is a genus of extinct early whale known from Late Eocene-aged fossils of the eastern United States and western Africa.