Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

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 Lagenorhynchus according to M. Murakami et al. 2014

See also Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Delphinus superciliosus, Lagenorhynchus acutus, Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Lagenorhynchus australis, Lagenorhynchus cruciger, Lagenorhynchus nilssonii, Lagenorhynchus obscurus

Type specimen: USNM 206098, a skull (cranium with compelte braincase). Its type locality is Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation, which is in a Zanclean estuary/bay sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation

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