Vanbreenia Bianucci and Landini 2002 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Full reference: G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2002. A new short-rostrum odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the middle Miocene of the eastern Netherlands. Beaufortia 52(11):187-196

Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to A. Berta 2017

See also Bianucci and Landini 2002

Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Mycteriacetus, Phocaenopsis, Schizodelphis, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis

Subtaxa: Vanbreenia trigonia

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Type: Vanbreenia trigonia

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Miste (Miocene of Netherlands)

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