Scaldiporia vandokkumi Post et al. 2017 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae

Full reference: K. Post, S. Louywe, and O. Lambert. 2017. Scaldiporia vandokkumi, a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands). PeerJ 5::e3991

Belongs to Scaldiporia according to K. Post et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMR 9991-12018, a partial skull. Its type locality is Pit De Griete, which is in a Tortonian marine sandstone in the Breda Formation of the Netherlands.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pit De Griete

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