Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Full reference: G. A. Mchedlidze. 1959. A fossil dolphin (Imerodelphis thabagarii) from Sarmatian in the vicinity of Zestafoni. Soob. Akad. Nauk Gruz. SSR 23(6):687-694
Parent taxon: Kentriodontidae according to P. Gol'din et al. 2020
See also Carroll 1988, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Grigorescu and Kazár 2006, Mchedlidze 1959, Mchedlidze 1964, Mchedlidze 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Heterodelphis, Kampholophinae, Kampholophos, Kentriodon, Kentriodontinae, Lamprolithax, Lophocetinae, Microphocaena, Pithanodelphininae, Portheus patagonicus, Rudicetus, Wimahl
Subtaxa: Imerodelphis thabagarii
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Georgia (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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