†Arktocara yakataga Boersma and Pyenson 2016 (toothed whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Allodelphinidae
Full reference: A. Boersma and N. D. Pyenson. 2016. Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea. PeerJ 4:e2321
Belongs to Arktocara according to A. Boersma and N. D. Pyenson 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 214830, a partial skull (incomplete skull lacking the rostrum anterior of the antorbital notches, tympanoperiotics, dentition and mandibles). Its type locality is Lawrence Creek, which is in a Chattian marine siltstone in the Poul Creek Formation of Alaska.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lawrence Creek
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