Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: A. A. Kirpichnikov. 1954. Dva novykh roda delfinov iz sarmata SSSR. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 47:181-190

Parent taxon: Pithanodelphininae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Barnes 1978, Barnes 1985, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ichishima et al. 1995, Kirpichnikov 1954, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Sarmatodelphis, Sophianacetus

Subtaxa: Leptodelphis stavropolitanus

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Type: Leptodelphis stavropolitanus

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stavropol (Miocene of Russian Federation)

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