Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Full reference: E. Kazár and O. Hampe. 2014. A new species of Kentriodon (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the middle/late Miocene of Groß Pampau (Schleswig-Holstein, North Germany). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1216-1230
Belongs to Kentriodon according to E. Kazár and O. Hampe 2014
See also Steeman and Ramassamy 2019
Sister taxa: Kentriodon diusinus, Kentriodon fuchsii, Kentriodon hobetsu, Kentriodon nakajimai, Kentriodon obscurus, Kentriodon pernix, Kentriodon schneideri, Kentriodon sugawarai
Type specimen: MNU-071/18, a partial skeleton (Skull including the occipital condyles, parts of the facial region of the left maxilla and frontal, both nasals and a fragment of the right frontal of the verte). Its type locality is Grosse-Pampau, which is in a Serravallian offshore shelf claystone in the Glimmerton Formation of Germany.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Grosse-Pampau
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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