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

Belongs to Stenasodelphis according to S. J. Godfrey and O. Lambert 2023

See also Cozzuol 2010 and Godfrey and Barnes 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CMM-V-2234, a partial skull (partial skull). Its type locality is Seahorse Beach, north, which is in a Tortonian coastal mudstone in the St Marys Formation of Maryland.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Seahorse Beach, north

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.