Awadelphis hirayamai Murakami 2016 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: M. Murakami. 2016. A new extinct inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the upper Miocene Senhata Formation, Chiba, central Japan: the first record of Inioidea from the North Pacific Ocean. Paleontological Research 20(3):207-225

Belongs to Awadelphis according to M. Murakami 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: WU SILS G 408, a partial skull (partial skull, two iso- lated teeth, and a rib fragment.). Its type locality is Towa Stone Limited, which is in a Messinian/Zanclean marine sandstone in the Senhata Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Towa Stone Limited

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