Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Alternative spelling: Mycteracetus
Full reference: O. Lambert. 2004. Systematic revision of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Eurhinodelphis longirostris Du Bus, 1872. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 74:147-174
Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014 and Lambert 2004
Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Phocaenopsis, Schizodelphis, Vanbreenia, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis
Subtaxa: Mycteriacetus bellunensis
Type: Mycteriacetus bellunensis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Libano (Miocene of Italy)
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