Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Full reference: C. Muizon. 1983. Un nouveau Phocoenidae (Cetacea) du Pliocene inferieur du Perou. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris Serie II (296)1203-1206
Parent taxon: Phocoenidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Barnes 1985, Benites-Palomino et al. 2023, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Colpaert et al. 2015, de Muizon 1988, Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1983, Muizon 1984, Murakami et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Uhen et al. 2008 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Australithax, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Lomacetus, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoena, Phocoeninae, Phocoenoides, Phocoenoidinae, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus
Subtaxa: Piscolithax boreios Piscolithax longirostris Piscolithax tedfordi
Type: Piscolithax longirostris
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (1 collection), Peru (4), United States (1: California)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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