Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative combinations: Eodelphis kabatensis, Stenella kabatensis, Stenella kabatoensis
Full reference: H. Horikawa. 1977. A new species of fossil dolphin from the Miocene deposits of Kabato Mountainland, Hokkaido, Japan. Chikyu kagaku 31(3):97-114
Belongs to Eodelphinus according to M. Murakami et al. 2014
See also Horikawa 1977, Ichishima 2005, Kimura 1992, Murakami et al. 2014, Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: HMH 68037, a partial skull. Its type locality is Uryu, which is in a Tortonian marine mudstone in the Mashike Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Uryu
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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