Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative combination: Delphinus delannoyi
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1860. Rapport de M. Van Beneden. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 10:403-411
Belongs to Delphinus according to O. Abel 1901
See also Van Beneden 1860 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Delphinus bairdii, Delphinus baltringii, Delphinus bertini, Delphinus bonnaterrei, Delphinus boryi, Delphinus chilensis, Delphinus coronatus, Delphinus delphis, Delphinus dewaeli, Delphinus epiodon, Delphinus fabricii, Delphinus feres, Delphinus harlani, Delphinus leucocephalus, Delphinus maculatus, Delphinus malayanus, Delphinus minimus, Delphinus nesarnac, Delphinus niger, Delphinus obtusus, Delphinus pernettyi, Delphinus rappii, Delphinus rhinoceros, Delphinus rikuzenensis, Delphinus risso, Delphinus sao, Delphinus siculus, Delphinus taramelli, Delphinus tursio, Delphinus wasii, Eudelphinus compressus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Eibergen, which is in a Serravallian coastal claystone in the Netherlands
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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