Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae

Full reference: S. J. Godfrey and L. G. Barnes. 2008. A new genus and species of late Miocene pontoporiid dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the St. Marys Formation in Maryland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):520-528

Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Berta 2017, Cozzuol 2010, Geisler et al. 2012, Godfrey and Barnes 2008 and Godfrey and Lambert 2023

Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphininae, Brachydelphis, Lipotinae, Piscorhynchus, Pliopontos, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Pontoporiinae, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia

Subtaxa: Stenasodelphis russellae

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Seahorse Beach, north (Miocene of Maryland)

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