Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Alternative spelling: Sormatodelphis
Full reference: A. A. Kirpichnikov. 1954. Dva novykh roda delfinov iz sarmata SSSR. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 47:181-190
Parent taxon: Pithanodelphininae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Barnes 1978, Barnes 1985, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ichishima et al. 1995, Kazár and Grigorescu 2005, Kirpichnikov 1954, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Leptodelphis, Sophianacetus
Subtaxa: Sarmatodelphis moldavicus
Type: Sarmatodelphis moldavicus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Moldova (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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