Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1859. On a fossil bird and a fossil cetacean from New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:670-677
Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to A. Berta 2017
See also Benton 1993, Carroll 1988, Fordyce 1980, Fordyce 1981, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Huxley 1859, Kellogg 1928, McKenna and Bell 1997, Ortega and Fordyce 2009, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1904 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Mycteriacetus, Schizodelphis, Vanbreenia, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis
Subtaxa: Phocaenopsis mantelli Phocaenopsis scheynensis
Type: Phocaenopsis mantelli
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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