Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Full reference: C. Muizon. 1983. Pliopontos littoralis un nouveau Platanistidae Cetacea du Pliocene de la cote peruvienne. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris Serie II (296)1101-1104
Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Barnes 1985, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Cozzuol 2010, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2012, Geisler et al. 2011, Hamilton et al. 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1983, Muizon 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphininae, Brachydelphis, Lipotinae, Piscorhynchus, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Pontoporiinae, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia, Stenasodelphis
Subtaxa: Pliopontos littoralis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Chile (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Chile (2), Peru (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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