Zarhinocetus Barnes and Reynolds 2009 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Allodelphinidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes and R. E. Reynolds. 2009. A new species of early Miocene allodelphinid dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from Cajon Pass, Southern California, U.S.A. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65:483-507

Parent taxon: Allodelphinidae according to S. J. Godfrey et al. 2017

See also Barnes and Reynolds 2009, Berta 2017, Boersma and Pyenson 2016, Boessenecker 2011, Kimura and Barnes 2016, Marx et al. 2016 and Tanaka et al. 2026

Sister taxa: Allodelphis, Arktocara, Goedertius, Ninjadelphis

Subtaxa: Zarhinocetus donnamatsonae Zarhinocetus errabundus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (5: California, Washington collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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