Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae
Full reference: J. Velez-Juarbe and N. D. Pyenson. 2012. Bohaskia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2):476-484
Belongs to Bohaskaia according to J. Velez-Juarbe and N. D. Pyenson 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 182963, a partial skull (partial skull including tympanoperiotics). Its type locality is Rice's Pit, which is in a Zanclean shallow subtidal siltstone in the Yorktown Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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