Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach. 2008. Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:181-269

Belongs to Kentriodon according to C. Peredo et al. 2018

See also Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Kentriodon diusinus, Kentriodon fuchsii, Kentriodon hobetsu, Kentriodon hoepfneri, Kentriodon nakajimai, Kentriodon obscurus, Kentriodon pernix, Kentriodon sugawarai

Type specimen: USNM 323772, a skull. Its type locality is Lee Creek, Pungo River Fm., which is in an Aquitanian/Langhian marine carbonate in the Pungo River Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek, Pungo River Fm.

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