Microphocaena Kudrin and Tatarinov 1966 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: L. N. Kudrin and K. A. Tatarinov. 1966. O miotsenovykh del'finakh Zapadnoy Ukrainy. Paleontologischeskiy Zhurnal 4:68-74

Parent taxon: Kentriodontidae according to A. Berta 2017

See also Barnes 1978, Barnes 1985, Benton 1993, Carroll 1988, de Muizon 1988, Ichishima et al. 1995, Kudrin and Tatarinov 1966, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Heterodelphis, Imerodelphis, Kampholophinae, Kampholophos, Kentriodon, Kentriodontinae, Lamprolithax, Lophocetinae, Pithanodelphininae, Portheus patagonicus, Rudicetus, Wimahl

Subtaxa: Microphocaena podolica

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brykov (Miocene of Ukraine)

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