Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Full reference: R. E. Fordyce, P. G. Quilty, and J. Daniels. 2002. Australodelphis mirus, a bizarre new toothless ziphiid-like fossil dolphin (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Pliocene of Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 14(1):37-54

Belongs to Australodelphis according to M. Murakami et al. 2014

See also Fordyce et al. 2002

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AGSO CPC 25730, a partial skull (incomplete skull lacking basicranium, incomplete fused right and left mandibles, right and left tympano-periotics). Its type locality is Marine Plain, which is in a Zanclean marine siltstone in the Sorsdal Formation of Antarctica.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Marine Plain

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.