Phocaenopsis Huxley 1859 (toothed whale)

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

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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

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