Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Full reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244
Parent taxon: Phocoenidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Colpaert et al. 2015, Cozzuol 1996, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Govender 2019, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1988, Murakami et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Lomacetus, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoena, Phocoeninae, Phocoenoides, Phocoenoidinae, Piscolithax, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus
Subtaxa: Australithax intermedia
Type: Australithax intermedia
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of South Africa (1 collection)
• Miocene of Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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